This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.

Updated January 19th as service was being restored.

APKMirror, a popular destination for Android users to safely sideload apps on their smartphones, is blocking downloads of TikTok and Lemon8, citing the new law in the U.S. Interestingly, other TikTok apps are not blocked,

Whether TikTok can be downloaded on a new phone depends on your device, as it’s currently removed from app stores. Details.

While the TikTok ban has been suspended for 75 days, thanks to President Trump, the app is still not available in the Google Play Store, nor the Apple App

Some eBay sellers are hoping to get $10,000 or more for a smartphone with TikTok preinstalled, but the app's future is far from certain.

The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or the iPhone App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.

An investment group with MrBeast as its main face plans to offer more than $20 billion to buy TikTok in the US.

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?

Phones and Android phones with TikTok preinstalled on them are being listed for ridiculous prices on the online marketplace eBay.

U.S. TikTok users with Android devices might also be able to continue to update the platform through third-party app stores, a method called sideloading. But bypassing the security protocols that well-known app stores have in place might also leave users ...