People are feeling nostalgic about their childhood homes after taking part in a new TikTok trend which sees them post a street view of their old place from Google Earth or Maps. Known as the "Google Earth trend" on the platform,

House lawmakers are urging Apple and Google to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores. Unless TikTok divests from China-based owner ByteDance by Jan. 19, it will be unlawful for US companies to "provide services to distribute, maintain, or update ...

US lawmakers sent a letter to Google and Apple warning both companies to prepare to remove TikTok from the app stores.

The chair and top Democrat on a U.S. House of Representatives committee on China told the CEOs of Google-parent Alphabet and Apple on Friday they must be ready to remove TikTok from their U.S. app stores on Jan.

The Google Earth Trend or Somewhere On Google Earth is a TikTok trend in which users find their old homes, typically from their childhoods, on Google Earth

This Google Earth trend makes me the most emotional ... The trend comes shortly after TikTok released its 'Year on TikTok' report, showing which trends have been fueling user engagement in ...

According to experts, TikTok has several pathways for avoiding a ban, most notably intervention from the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration declining to enforce it. Other options, like a last-minute sale or Congress deciding to repeal the law, appear less likely.

If ByteDance fails to sell TikTok by that date, Apple and Google will be required by law to ensure that their app stores no longer support the app in the U.S., the lawmakers said. House Committee members are urging the top executives of Apple and Google to ...

US President-elect Donald Trump met with TikTok’s CEO on Monday as a possible ban is set to come into force in January.

Australia has unveiled plans to implement a targeted tax on major digital platforms that don't share revenue with news organizations.

In a new, melancholy trend sweeping social media, Gen Z is using the “Street View” feature on Google Maps to view their childhood homes or the houses of their now-deceased grandparents, where photos snapped in years’ past show loved ones sitting on their porches or gardening in their front yards.