Amazon places bid on TikTok
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Amazon is making a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media app's China-based parent company.
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Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
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TikTok could shut down if Chinese parent ByteDance doesn't reach an agreement to sell a controlling interest by President Trump's April 5 deadline.
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data As TikTok's future remains uncertain, a number of prominent moguls and companies are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app.
The White House could announce the outline of a deal as the deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer approaches this week, Wedbush analysts said in a research note. Wedbush views TikTok "as one of the biggest and first chips on the poker table around US/China relations.
President Donald Trump again downplayed risks that TikTok is in danger of being banned in the United States, saying he remains confident of finding
Several proposals for TikTok's US business have emerged since ... a newly announced national sovereign fund. Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities told AFP that he believed cloud company Oracle would ...
Trump gave China’s ByteDance until April 5 to sell or divest its U.S. TikTok business. A source confirmed to NBC News that the e-commerce giant had made a last-minute pitch.