The Trump administration made good on its threat to block U.S. users from accessing TikTok and WeChat, announcing that American businesses will be banned from distributing either of the Chinese-owned ...

Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter, now rebranded as X, as an “everything app” is no secret. When the X logo replaced Twitter’s blue bird, the internet buzzed with heated discussions about just what it ...

The Trump administration has officially banned the Chinese-owned messaging and mobile payment app WeChat from US app stores starting this Sunday, Sept. 20, leaving many people who regularly use the ...

As relayed in a memo released by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, WeChat and TikTok must be removed from all mobile app stores in the U.S. effective Sunday. Additionally, all cash transactions via ...

The battle between President Trump and Chinese-owned mobile apps TikTok and WeChat reached an inflection point Friday with the Commerce Department announcing that the platforms will be banned from app ...

Chinese Americans say they feel "targeted" by Trump's WeChat ban. For many in the Chinese American community, WeChat is their only tether to friends and family both in the U.S. and thousands of miles ...

I found a hidden economy in my small college town made by and for Chinese consumers I found a hidden economy in my small college town made by and for Chinese consumers For an app with over a billion ...

With a jump of more than 40 million monthly active users since the end of 2013, the mobile messaging app's star appears to be on the rise. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who ...

Musk has not been shy about his desire to emulate the success of WeChat. In June, at a town hall with Twitter employees, he compared the American company’s potential to that of Tencent’s ubiquitous ...

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The Trump administration has been waging a months-long campaign against two popular mobile apps, WeChat and TikTok, over their Chinese ownership. It began with an Aug. 6 executive order calling for ...