Trump TikTok sale deadline looms
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Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok as the April 5 deadline determining the popular video app’s fate quickly approaches. Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant has joined an unnamed list of buyers...
From The Daily Beast
President Trump signing another executive order effectively extending the deadline for the company to find US buyers by another 75 days.
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Some political officials have seen TikTok as a national security threat for years, expressing concern that ByteDance may be sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government.
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The White House really wants to get a deal to sell Chinese short-video app TikTok to a US company and remove all possibilities of the Mainland using it as a way to spy on Americans. Except, apparently,
TikTok will live to see another day - at least for now. On April 4, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order delaying the ban on the popular social media app for another 75 days. The app was to go dark in the U.
Led by billionaire Frank McCourt of Project Liberty, with ‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary, this consortium offered over $20 billion, according to Fortune. It includes Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and aims to rearchitect TikTok for user data control.
However, key parties involved in negotiations on a potential TikTok sale “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” according to The New York Times.
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Several potential buyers have bid on the popular social media app to ensure its continued access in the United States.
Trump added that he looked forward to working with TikTok and China to close the deal, and that he did not want the app to "go dark."
Trump gave China’s ByteDance until Saturday 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.
Jeff Bezos’s bid for TikTok comes days before a deadline for the Chinese company to sell it US operations - John Locher/AP Amazon has put in a last-minute bid for TikTok’s US business as ...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) blasted President Trump over what the Democrat described as a plot to plant political influence on the TikTok platform. Trump granted the app’s parent company,
QVC is launching the first 24/7 live shopping stream on TikTok in the U.S., the company announced on Wednesday