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TikTok is officially back on app stores
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2/15/2025
TheStreet’s Conway Gittens brings you the biggest news of the day, including TikTok’s U.S. comeback.
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TikTok is back, at least in the online app stores, that is. The popular social media
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app can once again be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The restoration
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comes after Apple and Google received reassurances from the Trump Justice Department that they
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will not be fined for violating a Biden-era ban on TikTok, according to sources close
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to both companies. The law, signed by Biden, which went into effect on Jan. 19, banned
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TikTok unless its parent company ByteDance sold the app to U.S. owners. Congress passed
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the law on concerns TikTok was a national security threat. As part of that original
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legislation, app stores were threatened with steep fines if they kept the app available.
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Once back at the White House, President Trump signed an executive order that put a 75-day
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enforcement halt in place, throwing the tech world into confusion. While some tech companies
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backed away from TikTok, others quickly resumed cooperation after a brief shutdown. This
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confusion has not cleared up. Trump recently hinted his ban delay might be extended. Meanwhile,
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there's been no deal involving a U.S. company to buy TikTok, and it's still not clear ByteDance
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or the Chinese government would agree to one. In the meantime, TikTok's 170 million American
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users can keep on making and sharing their videos unencumbered, at least for now.
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Turning to Friday's market action, investors are taking a steep surprise drop in January
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retail sales in stride. Sales fell 0.9 percent at the start of the year and a broad-based
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spending pullback. The first drop in retail sales in six months, however, was likely influenced
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by wildfires in California and winter storms engulfing large sections of the country.
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That'll do it for your daily briefing from the New York Stock Exchange. I'm Conway Gittins
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with The Street.
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