The TikTok app from ByteDance Ltd. will be shown in the App Store on a smartphone on a regular photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, August 3, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart said it is partnering with Microsoft in a bid for TikTok. The retail …
Read More »TikTok pleads US government over Trump ban
TikTok app Narinder Nanu | AFP | Getty Images TikTok, the video-sharing application owned by China-based ByteDance, on Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the company’s U.S. operations. In a blog post, TikTok claimed that the ban prevented the company from …
Read More »TikTok is challenging U.S. order-binding transactions with the video app, sources say
Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto | Getty Images TikTok is preparing for a legal challenge this Monday on the executive order of President Donald Trump banning transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. On August 14, Trump issued an …
Read More »Larry Kudlow on Trump’s desire for US to get cut from a TikTok sale
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump wants to prevent China from collecting some form of payment in a deal to sell TikTok. “I think he probably wants to deny China some of the proceeds from the TikTok sale. It’s not something that …
Read More »Trump supports Oracle’s bid to buy TikTok from ByteDance in the US
US President Donald Trump speaks before signing a trade agreement between the US and China on January 15, 2020, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump said that US enterprise software giant Oracle …
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