Billionaires race to buy TikTok after Chinese owners ordered to sell app — with Steve Mnuchin in the lead
by New York Post
New York Post— These Wall Street and tech titans need more than likes to get control of the app.
BBC News—TikTok: Chinese parent firm ByteDance says no plans to sell app. The comments from ByteDance come after reports it was exploring the potential sale of the platform.
AppleInsider—Biden will ban TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells it. After a vote in the Senate tied to foreign aid late on Tuesday, President Biden will sign into law a requirement for ByteDance to sell or divest its TikTok platform within a year. TikTok could be banned in the US The combination bill including a potential TikTok ban was approved first by the House of Representatives, and now also by the Senate. President Biden says he will sign it into law on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. According to Reuters, the legislation mandates that TikTok will be...
KIFI—Chinese owner denies it’s willing to sell TikTok as US ban looms. By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance said Thursday that it has no plans to sell the social media platform, its first official response on the fraught issue since President Joe Biden signed a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban of the wildly popular app. “Foreign media