Google-parent Alphabet and Apple must be ready to remove TikTok from their U.S. app stores on January 19, two US lawmakers said in a letter to the companies’ CEOs Friday. The bipartisan letter came from two leaders of the US House of Representatives’ committee on China: Republican Representative John Moolenaar,

TikTok now plans to appeal to the Supreme Court and has asked the D.C. Circuit to put the law on hold while it appeals the case.

Members of a US House of Representatives committee on Friday pressed Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai to prepare to comply with the country's expected ban on TikTok next month.