Amazon ‘makes last-minute bid to buy TikTok’ as app faces US ban

From thesun.co.uk

Leaders in Washington DC have voiced their concerns that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its ownership by Beijing technology company, ByteDance. Hours after taking office in January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order delaying the federal ban on TikTok. The order extended a potential sale of TikTok, which had a January 19 deadline to sell the company to a US-owned company or face a complete ban in the country, for 75 days. However, the 75 days are up on April 5, as TikTok remains silent on a potential US sale. Amazon made an eleventh hour offer to acquire all of TikTok, The New York Times ... (full story)