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Amazon makes bid to purchase TikTok as deadline looms

Editorial Board Published April 2, 2025
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Amazon has made a bid to purchase TikTok as the favored social media app faces a looming deadline to be divested from its China-based proprietor or face a ban within the U.S. that might take impact this month.

A Trump administration official advised Reuters on Wednesday that the e-commerce large made a bid to purchase TikTok forward of the looming ban.

The New York Instances beforehand reported, citing three folks conversant in the matter, that Amazon positioned a last-minute bid to accumulate TikTok in its entirety. Nevertheless, these sources advised the outlet the events concerned within the discussions do not seem like taking Amazon’s bid severely. Based on the report, the supply was delivered to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Congress enacted a regulation final yr that might ban apps like TikTok which can be owned by entities positioned in adversarial nations corresponding to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea after a 270-day interval wherein divestment may happen. President Donald Trump has stated he needs to discover a approach to maintain the app working within the U.S. and signed an govt order extending that divestment window to permit extra time for a deal to return collectively. His extension offers the corporate till Saturday to get a deal executed.

TRUMP TO CONSIDER FINAL PROPOSAL FOR TIKTOK AS DEADLINE LOOMS

TikTok faces a looming deadline to divest from its Chinese language possession or face a U.S. ban. (Yan Cong/Bloomberg by way of / Getty Photographs)

FOX Enterprise reached out to Amazon and the corporate declined to touch upon the report that it’s involved in shopping for TikTok.

Different potential suitors for TikTok have included a bunch referred to as Undertaking Liberty, led by billionaire Frank McCourt and Kevin O’Leary. 

TikTok has resisted the push to promote, partly due to opposition from the Chinese language authorities, which has the authority to dam the sale of China-based companies.

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Shou Zi Chew (C), the CEO of TikTok, arrives to attend Donald Trump's inauguration as the next U.S. president in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.

Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Shawn Thew/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

FOX Enterprise’ Charlie Gasparino reported that there’s a TikTok deal on the desk that might create a brand new firm with majority possession within the U.S., although traders are involved about legal responsibility provisions within the regulation that bans apps like TikTok that might take time to deal with and require an extra delay.

Beneath the proposed deal, TikTok’s Chinese language house owners would retain a minority stake of lower than 20% beneath the brand new company construction. The app’s supply code would stay what it was created with by its Chinese language possession, although it will be monitored within the Oracle cloud to forestall spying.

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TikTok’s price ticket beneath that proposal could be $40 billion with the present supply code included, or $20 billion if that’s faraway from a possible deal.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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