A Manhattan mom whose 15-year-old son died while subway surfing can move forward with a lawsuit against the social media companies that she says helped to popularize the dangerous trend, a state judge has ruled.

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, has plans to move Americans to a US-specific version of CapCut as it looks to meet requirements for a divest-or-ban law.

Is ByteDance releasing a new TikTok app?Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. ByteDance is reportedly launching a version of TikTok that will be based in and operated from America,

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is developing a backup plan as it faces a deadline to sell its US operations or risk a

From Larry Ellison’s new power consolidation to an app that simply may not be as good, the key variables as a multiyear saga could finally be ending.

The TikTok US-only app strategy centers on creating an independent recommendation system that would operate entirely apart from ByteDance’s global infrastructure. The new app is expected to use only data from US users to train its recommendation algorithms, further distancing it from TikTok’s global systems, according to the SCMP report.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, will lay off more than 60 employees from its Bellevue office. The two submitted separate state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN) on Monday.

Launching a U.S.-specific app could be part of the company's broader plan to comply with a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest from TikTok.

A now-deleted report by GeekPark claimed ByteDance had approved a sale to an Oracle-led group, retaining a minority stake. However, ByteDance has not confirmed this, and the report has been scrubbed from Chinese platforms.