an American judge in Washington temporarily stopped a decision preventing Apple and Google from enabling the download of the TikTok application, which was due to take effect at 11.59 pm yesterday Sunday.
According to Reuters, US District Judge Carl Nichols approved late Sunday evening a preliminary injunction sought by TikTok's owner, ByteDance, to allow the continued existence of The app is in US app stores.
But the judge has refused for the time being to halt additional Department of Commerce restrictions that are due to take effect on November 12 and which TikTok said will make the app impossible to use in the United States.
The latest draft agreement announced at the end of last week provides for the creation of a new company, TikTok Global, which includes the American company Oracle, as a technology partner in the United States, and Walmart of America as a trading partner.
Under the agreement, Oracle will own 12.5% of TikTok's capital, while Walmart will own 7.5%, and Americans will occupy four of the five board seats. But the completion of this project depends on the will of the US president and the Chinese government, amid an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing. And the US President echoed that he would not give his approval to the agreement if the Chinese parent company Baitdance continues to control the new group.
