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TikTok, owned by ByteDance, is on the verge of being banned in the United States. The thing is, the government also went after other ByteDance apps, and there are quite a few of them operating in the U.

Disappointment, denial and confusion flooded US TikTok upon hearing that Chinese owner ByteDance planned to shut off the app by Sunday.

TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.

While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.

Shou Zi Chew, the current CEO of TikTok, once interned at Facebook under none other than Mark Zuckerberg. Fast forward a decade, and he’s now leading TikTok—one of Zuckerberg’s fiercest competitors in the social media arena.

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

General Atlantic CEO and ByteDance board member Bill Ford said Wednesday that he believes TikTok soon will reach a deal to remain in the U.S.  “It’s in everybody’s interest,” Ford said

Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.

When short-form video platform TikTok shut down service earlier this month, the move surprised some Illinois politicians.

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?