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How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse

Reporter USApril 11, 2025

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in China, about 700 million use the domestic version, Douyin, and 300 million scroll the headlines on Toutiao, a news app. Every video that […]

How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs

Reporter USApril 8, 2025

Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors and officials in Washington had coalesced around a new ownership structure for the popular video app, four people familiar with the situation said. That structure, the people said, would help TikTok […]

With TikTok Deadline Looming, Details of a Potential Deal Emerge

Reporter USApril 6, 2025

Two days before a deadline for TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company or otherwise face a ban in the United States, a deal has not yet been cemented but the contours of one are starting to take shape. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the administration would announce a plan for […]

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul

Reporter USApril 3, 2025

For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to have a good time. He spent as much as $200 million building a Japanese-inspired imperial villa near Palo Alto, Calif., bought the sixth-largest Hawaiian island and dated and married and divorced with never-ending zeal. Few paid much attention to […]

Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.

Reporter USApril 2, 2025

Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid. Various parties who have been involved in the talks do […]

Trump Set to Meet With Top Aides to Decide TikTok’s Fate

Reporter USApril 2, 2025

President Trump plans to meet with top White House officials on Wednesday to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok’s future in the United States, two people familiar with the plans said. Mr. Trump will consider a proposal for a new ownership structure for the popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet […]

Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok

Reporter USMarch 28, 2025

The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the Chinese-owned app to change its ownership or face a U.S. ban under federal law, two people familiar with the situation said. Investing in TikTok would give Blackstone the chance to […]

TikTok Ads Portray App as Force for Good as US Ban Looms

Reporter USMarch 25, 2025

In an emotional advertisement running on Facebook and Instagram over the past month, a young woman, Katie, talks about being diagnosed with an illness that resulted in kidney failure at age 19. But she was able to find a transplant match “because a stranger was scrolling on TikTok.” Thanks to that stranger’s kidney, she continued, […]

Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny

Reporter USMarch 19, 2025

As questions continue to swirl around Washington about the future of TikTok, the name of one potential suitor for the popular video app keeps coming up: Oracle. On Tuesday, Oracle met with top aides on Capitol Hill to talk about how the U.S. tech giant, which processes and serves TikTok user data, plans to work […]