Amazon, Microsoft and OnlyFans founder among potential buyers for TikTok as US ban loomsAs a potential US ban looms on April 5, major companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and OnlyFans founder Tima Stokely’s startup Zoop are among ...
03 Apr, 2025, 03.58 PM IST
Amazon submits last-minute bid to buy TikTok, claims reportTikTok video app counts 170 million users in the United States. Amazon had previously tried to make a TikTok clone of sorts, called Inspire...
02 Apr, 2025, 10.33 PM IST
How a sale of TikTok would work and who might buy itSince signing the order to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner by early April, Donald Trump has dropped a series of often conflicting hints ...
05 Feb, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
Donald Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTokTrump had predicted on Monday there will be many people bidding to own TikTok, and he does not want China involved in the popular social me...
28 Jan, 2025, 02.15 PM 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 to place TikTok's global headquarters in US to escape Trump banAs per the plan presented to the US officials by ByteDance, TikTok will remain the majority shareholder of the new US headquartered company...
16 Sep, 2020, 09.08 PM IST
How ByteDance's CEO Yiming Zhang balked at selling TikTok's U.S. businessChina's opposition to a forced sale of TikTok, as well as concerns by major ByteDance backers such as Sequoia and General Atlantic over the...
15 Sep, 2020, 11.20 AM IST
Triller’s TikTok bid will exclude India unitPegasus Tech Ventures and Lowercase Capital are the two major early investors in Triller, which is owned by Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanau...
07 Sep, 2020, 11.38 AM 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
Change in TikTok's ownership may not be enough to lift ban in IndiaTikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, was one of 59 Chinese apps banned by the government because of national security issues, following bor...
29 Aug, 2020, 07.04 AM IST
Walmart joins Microsoft in pursuit of deal to acquire TikTokWalmart said in an emailed statement that the move could help grow its third-party online marketplace unit along with its nascent advertisi...
27 Aug, 2020, 10.56 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
It may look like an awkward fit but Oracle’s bid for TikTok has a simple explanation: DataMicrosoft Corp. has been seen as the front-runner in the race to acquire TikTok’s U.S. assets, and is the only company to publicly confirm ...
19 Aug, 2020, 05.24 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
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout, risks ire of Trump administrationTrump has given Microsoft until Sept. 15 to put together a blueprint for an acquisition that safeguards the personal data of Americans stor...
10 Aug, 2020, 03.50 PM IST
China's ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch US deal: SourcesUnder the new proposed deal, ByteDance would exit completely and Microsoft Corp would take over TikTok in the United States, the sources sa...
01 Aug, 2020, 07.05 PM IST
A TikTok-Microsoft deal may be the best and most elegant solution for all parties involvedIn this instance, though, Microsoft may be the best suitor. On the surface, it may seem strange to contemplate such a large deal in an envi...
01 Aug, 2020, 08.51 AM IST