PALO ALTO, U.S./WASHINGTON -- Sunday's last-minute court ruling that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump's order to bar TikTok from app stores has upended U.S. efforts to force a sale of the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing platform.
Trump signed an executive order Aug. 6 to bar any transactions with TikTok owner ByteDance or its subsidiaries after 45 days. With a ban looking likely as the deadline loomed Sunday night, a U.S. District Court judge issued an injunction against an order that would have forced Google and Apple to remove the TikTok app from their stores, granting a partial reprieve.
