Trump Says Microsoft Is One Of Multiple Companies Eyeing TikTok Purchase

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Trump Says

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Is One Of Multiple Companies Eyeing TikTok Purchase

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is one of multiple companies looking to strike a deal to take ownership of the popular social media app TikTok, according to United States president Donald Trump. Asked on Monday aboard Air Force One if

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was in the mix to make a deal, Trump told reporters,

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, “I would say yes.”

In 2020,

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officially announced plans to buy TikTok, which sent the company’s share price surging.

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later

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its buyout attempt, with CEO Satya Nadella saying the deal was the

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Now,

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may be back at the negotiating table.

Trump said other companies are in the mix to buy TikTok as well, but he didn’t name them outright. It was previously reported that Activision founder

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. The AI company Perplexity has also

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that would give the US government a 50% ownership stake in TikTok.

“I like bidding wars because you make your best deals,” Trump said.

Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court upheld TikTok’s ban, and the platform briefly went dark. It’s back online, though the app remains unavailable for new users from the App Store and

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Play. Trump recently extended the deadline for TikTok to find a new owner in the US by 75 days, with the deadline now being April 4.

Republicans and Democrats alike have raised concerns about national security over TikTok based on the company’s ownership by a ******** company, ByteDance. How a potential ***** of TikTok might come together remains a mystery, whether it comes as a ***** of TikTok’s US operations, the platform entirely, or some other kind of deal beyond a total divestiture by ByteDance.

ByteDance is holding steady and

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