Apple and Google ‘must prepare to remove’ TikTok from US app stores by January 19

WASHINGTON – The chair and top Democrat on a US 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 US app stores on January 19.

Last week, a US federal appeals court upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok in the United States or face a ban. Representative John Moolenaar, a Republican and chair of the committee, and the top Democrat on the committee, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi...