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. President Donald Trump on Monday delayed by 75 days the imposition of a law that would effectively ban ByteDance’s (BDNCE) TikTok in the U.
A group of American investors, including YouTube star MrBeast and Roblox CEO David Baszucki, has secured over $20 billion for a potential TikTok takeover, but ByteDance has yet to respond to their bid.
After the bipartisan TikTok law was signed by former President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance said it did not have plans to sell the platform and fought the statute in court for months. China also rebuked Washington over the divestment push, though more recently it appears to be softening its stance.
TikTok's future remains uncertain as ByteDance weighs options, while high-profile investors consider potential bids.
While Trump made efforts to ban TikTok during his first term, he switched his stance on the app last year. Trump asked the Supreme Court last month to put the brakes on the law targeting TikTok, saying he wanted to "negotiate a resolution" to save the social-media platform while addressing national-security concerns.
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.
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the Davos event on Thursday.
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Ryanair is confident that Boeing will ramp up its production of 737 MAX jets to 38 per month this summer and that it will be allowed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to then increase that to 42,
President Donald Trump apparently has no qualms about turning the fate of TikTok into a public bidding war. When prompted by specific questions from reporters, the new president has tossed out some of the biggest names in the tech world as possible buyers of TikTok’s US operations — a deal that would allow the platform to get around a ban imposed
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,
Kevin O’Leary didn’t hold back when discussing the impact of Chinese firm DeepSeek’s AI model, which soared to the top of Apple’s App Store and sent shockwaves through the tech world, causing U.