Senator wants Trump to answer questions on TikTok divestiture planTrump signed an executive order on September 25 declaring that a plan to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to a consortium of U.S. and global i...
24 Nov, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
US Treasury's Bessent says China has approved TikTok transfer dealChina's Commerce Ministry said in a statement earlier on Thursday that China would properly handle TikTok-related issues with the United St...
30 Oct, 2025, 06.58 PM IST
TikTok deal inside detail are out: China's ByteDance will still have presence in video app's board of operations in U.SDonald Trump said on Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had made progress on a TikTok agreement in a phone call and would meet...
21 Sep, 2025, 08.15 AM IST
US senator Warner says new Donald Trump TikTok extension may violate lawDonald Trump on Friday said he extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of the popular short video app to a non-Chi...
08 Apr, 2025, 05.03 PM IST
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail: reportByteDance considers shutting down TikTok over U.S. ban legislation, unlikely to sell due to crucial algorithms. China opposes forced sale. ...
26 Apr, 2024, 09.46 AM IST
Timeline: ByteDance founder who put TikTok on global map to quit as CEOZhang, 38, turned ByteDance into a social media powerhouse which has also had many brushes with global regulators
20 May, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
ByteDance not in preliminary talks to list TikTok on NYSE: SourceThe Global Times, published by China's ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper, said earlier on its Twitter account that...
17 Feb, 2021, 09.25 AM IST
Sequoia Capital and KKR lead ByteDance funding round that values it at $180 billionThe funding round, which aims to raise $2 billion and would make it the world's most valuable financing round in the private market, is dra...
11 Dec, 2020, 04.28 PM IST
US grants ByteDance new seven-day extension of TikTok sale orderThe administration previously had granted ByteDance a 15-day extension of the order issued in August, which was set to expire Friday. Presi...
26 Nov, 2020, 09.18 AM IST
How a marked-up term sheet and messy rollout threw TikTok deal into disarrayWhat appeared as a coup clinched by Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc investment banker, did not hold. ByteDance would subsequently...
23 Sep, 2020, 10.34 PM IST
ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win US deal as deadline looms: SourcesTrump ordered ByteDance last month to divest TikTok amid U.S. concerns that the personal data of as many as 100 million Americans who use t...
18 Sep, 2020, 10.16 AM IST
US investors, companies set to own majority stake in TikTok U.S. operationsThe new company, dubbed TikTok Global, will have a majority of American directors, a U.S. chief executive and a security expert on the boar...
18 Sep, 2020, 06.52 AM IST
ByteDance drops TikTok's US sale, to partner with Oracle: ReportByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok's U.S. business to either Oracle or a consortium led by Microsoft Corp after U.S. President Do...
14 Sep, 2020, 09.10 PM IST
China would rather see TikTok US close than a forced sale: SourcesByteDance has been in talks to sell TikTok's U.S. business to potential buyers including Microsoft and Oracle since U.S. President Donald T...
11 Sep, 2020, 10.54 PM IST
Aspiring TikTok buyers pursue four options in effort to revive talksOther options being considered include asking for Chinese approval to pass TikTok's algorithm on to the acquirer of the short video app's U...
02 Sep, 2020, 10.03 PM IST
ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid - SourcesByteDance has been in talks to divest TikTok's North America, Australia and New Zealand operations to potential acquirers, including Micros...
24 Aug, 2020, 02.42 PM IST
Oracle enters race to buy TikTok's U.S. operations: ReportMicrosoft is particularly interested in buying TikTok in Europe and India, where it was recently banned by the Indian government after bord...
19 Aug, 2020, 03.59 PM IST