Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched her own cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband, President-elect Donald Trump, being inaugurated and days after he announced his own memecoin.

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Jan. 17, to uphold a law that would ban the app for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. The ruling lines up with decisions other courts have made and sets up the ban to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.

After hearing arguments on Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the law, meaning that TikTok will be banned effective if the parent company ByteDance does not sell the company by Sunday.

Different content regulations and lack of English support could mean short-lived American growth for suddenly popular alternative platform Analysts are predicting that a recent surge of Americans flocking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu could be short-lived,

TikTok went dark in the United States on Sunday as millions of dismayed users found themselves barred from the popular app, with President-elect Donald Trump vowing to seek a reprieve. After discussing TikTok with Chinese President Xi Jinping,

It remained unclear how long the ban would stay in place as President-elect Donald Trump has said he would try to find a "political resolution"

TikTok could avoid a US ban at the last minute despite the Supreme Court ruling against the Chinese-owned app...

It took only about a day for Chinese censors to crack down on posts from Americans who had flooded onto the Chinese social-media app Xiaohongshu. American TikTok users started downloading Xiaohongshu,

Chinese tech companies and their censorship apparatus look to be early beneficiaries of the Supreme Court’s decision to keep a law forcing the sale or shutdown of TikTok in the coming days.

The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.