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Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
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The Trump administration's work to find an American buyer for the short-video social media site TikTok is on track ahead of the April 5 deadline to reach a deal for non-Chinese ownership, Vice Presid...
From U.S. News & World Report
AppLovin's indication of interest is preliminary and there can be no assurance that a transaction involving the company will proceed, it said in a regulatory filing.
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