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US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said TikTok’s US operations must transition from Chinese to American ownership.
The TikTok saga is in many ways a microcosm of our erratic and unprincipled approach to the varied challenges presented by ...
The company ‘has been studying plans’ for US-only apps, but had not made up its mind, according to a person familiar with the matter.
President Trump last week announced he’s “pretty much” secured a U.S. buyer for TikTok. And TikTok itself seems to have accepted its fate, as it is reportedly building a U.S.-based version of its app ...
With a September deadline looming, a new report says TikTok is building a replacement app for its 170 million American users as part of a sale to an Oracle led group.
A group of American investors claim their plans to purchase the app from Beijing Telecoms and ByteDance were thwarted through ...
A consortium of companies, including Oracle, Blackstone, and a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), is back in the running to acquire TikTok. As reported by Bloomberg and citing a person familiar with the matter ...
Even with the TikTok divest-or-ban law officially in effect since January, the app has only shut down service in the US for ...
If Larry Ellison and Oracle — already a TikTok tech partner — become the owner of the new U.S. outfit, as Trump has repeatedly suggested, then it could pave the way for an emergent media dynasty.
A now-deleted report by GeekPark claimed ByteDance had approved a sale to an Oracle-led group, retaining a minority stake. However, ByteDance has not confirmed this, and the report has been scrubbed ...
TikTok will launch a new U.S.-exclusive version of its app on app stores on September 5, as part of an ongoing effort to ...