Amazon's Last-Minute Bid for TikTok Comes
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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.
From Associated Press News
President Trump plans to meet with top White House officials on Wednesday to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok’s future in the United States, two people familiar with the plans said.
From The New York Times
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 ...
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at the looming deadline — again — for a US ban-or-sale of TikTok.
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TikTok users may be experiencing a bit of déjà vu this week, with the app days away from a potential US ban and little concrete information available on its future.
According to a report from The New York Times, Amazon has just submitted an offer to acquire TikTok. TikTok will potentially face another U.S. ban as soon as April 5th, if ByteDance does not divest the platform to an American entity by then.
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Amazon has submitted a last-minute bid to buy out TikTok as the popular video sharing app faces a U.S.-wide ban later this week
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