U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is chalking out a plan to save popular short-form video hosting service TikTok which involves Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and a group of outside investors, NPR reported on Saturday,
NEW YORK (AP) — The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its U.S. operations.
Billionaire Frank McCourt remains open to partnering with other buyers in acquiring TikTok's U.S. operations, but insists on maintaining control. McCourt's Project Liberty submitted a bid without including TikTok's algorithm,
Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and other investors have submitted a bid to buy TikTok from China-based ByteDance after a court-ordered divestiture or shutdown.
(Reuters) -Businessman Frank McCourt is "open-minded" to keeping TikTok's existing investors, including the founder, involved after any deal to buy the U.S. operations of the Chinese-owned short ...
Billionaire Frank McCourt says he is open to others joining his bid for U.S. TikTok, January 23, 2025. "If, as things evolve, there are other financial arrangements, we don't need to own 100 percent of TikTok.
With multiple suitors circling and Trump framing the situation as a deal-making exercise, TikTok's U.S. future is still up in the air. If a resolution is reached, it could set a precedent for tech ownership disputes between the U.
Canadian investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary is still interested in a TikTok deal, but it’s not possible under current law, he told CNBC.
In a message to users hours before the rally, TikTok said: "As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the US"
In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from Friday the app was to shut down after the court upheld a bipartisan law that banned TikTok nationwide, provided it was still controlled by its Chinese parent company.
The ban is the end result of 2024 legislation passed on national security concerns that called for TikTok parent ByteDance to sell the popular short-video app or see it shut in the United States on Jan. 19.