Amazon's Last-Minute Bid for TikTok Comes
Digest more
Top News
Overview
Reactions and opinions
USA TODAY |
The clock is ticking down on the TikTok video app's potential ban in the United States, last minute investors such as Amazon and AppLovin are submitting bids.
BBC |
The social media giant faces being shut down in the US unless it sells to an American company by 5 April.
U.S. News & World Report |
Despite a bipartisan consensus about the risk to national security posed by TikTok’s ties to China, "it’s as if nothing ever happened,” said Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University’s Tech Policy ...
Read more on News Digest
Trump to weigh final TikTok deal
Digest more
Top News
Overview
Impacts
CNN |
Advisers to President Donald Trump are expected Wednesday to present the president with options for a deal to invest in TikTok that involves a number of well-heeled venture capital, private equity fun...
Fast Company |
As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media...
Reuters |
TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States.
Read more on News Digest
The White House has examined a menu of options to avert a TikTok ban deadline set for Saturday. One proposal — letting TikTok’s Chinese owner lease the algorithm to a TikTok spinoff in the U.S. — would probably face resistance from China hawks in Trump’s party.
TikTok has just days to find a buyer in the United States or face a ban in the country. The White House on Tuesday indicated a deal may be close to done. NBC Bay Area business and tech reporter Scott Budman provides the latest in his video report above.
After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the
YouTube announced new video creation tools for short videos ahead of a pending deadline for TikTok owner ByteDance to sell it or be banned from the United States.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday considered a strategy to avert a TikTok ban scheduled to take effect Saturday.
Several potential buyers have bid on the popular social media app to ensure its continued access in the United States.
TikTok, one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States, has four days to reach a deal divesting it of Chinese ownership before it goes dark. The app, which is owned by China’s ByteDance,
Substack is now joining in on the vertical video feed trend as TikTok is in hot water and risking a ban once again.