President Donald Trump is willing to give TikTok more time to find a new owner. “So perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” the president told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired...
Apple has reportedly decided to keep TikTok in its App Store for at least 75 more days. This decision came after the tech giant got a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi telling the company it should adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive order that...
Amazon has reportedly placed an eleventh-hour bid to acquire video app/social commerce platform TikTok. The offer, as reported Wednesday (April 2) by The New York Times (NYT), comes just days ahead of a deadline that requires TikTok’s owner ByteDance to divest the platform or face...
The private equity outfit Blackstone reportedly could soon be an investor in TikTok’s American operations. The company is considering a small minority investment in the social media platform, Reuters reported Friday (March 28), citing two sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, Blackstone...
TikTok’s owner ByteDance has less than two weeks to sell the social media platform. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) search engine firm Perplexity is making the case for why it should become the popular video-sharing service’s new owner, following weeks of reports that the company was...
One of the deals being considered to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. reportedly involves Oracle taking a small stake in the company and working with U.S. buyers to ensure that no user data would be accessible to the Chinese government. That is one of...
While Facebook is losing ground with younger users, its resale platform is a different story. Just 32% of American teeangers use Facebook today — down from 71% a decade ago — CNBC reported Sunday (March 9), citing Pew Research data. Still, Facebook Marketplace remains a...
President Donald Trump said he plans to negotiate TikTok’s future with China’s government. Speaking with reporters Wednesday (Feb. 20) on Air Force One, Trump was asked if there had been any developments on the future of the popular video-sharing platform, Reuters reported Wednesday. “No, there’s...
TikTok has returned to the Apple and Google app stores after being removed amid the threat of a U.S. ban. “The TikTok app is now available for download from the App Store and Google Play,” the company said in a Thursday (Feb. 13) press release. “Our...
