The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

President Donald Trump said over the weekend there are lots of potential buyers and said he'd like to keep the app alive. The administration has set an April 5 deadline for the app to be banned if it is not sold by it's Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance.

Despite the increasing number of potential buyers, neither the app nor its Chinese owner have confirmed they will do a deal.

A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire TikTok.

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order protecting him from removal want to force the Trump administration to bring him back. Government lawyers have called the man’s deportation an “administrative error” but said there was little that could be done to force his return.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at the looming deadline — again — for a US ban-or-sale of TikTok.

Marketing platform AppLovin said on Thursday it has submitted a bid for TikTok assets outside of China, ahead of the April 5 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to find a non-Chinese buyer for the short video app used by 170 million Americans.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would consider a deal for TikTok where China approves the sale of the short video app in exchange for relief from U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump said that a deal is close on Tiktok,

TikTok’s future is in limbo as another deadline looms. For some users, nothing has been the same since those 14 hours in January anyway.

Trump gave China’s ByteDance until Saturday to sell or divest its U.S. TikTok business. A source confirmed to NBC News that the e-commerce giant had made a last-minute pitch.

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Amazon has reportedly joined the growing list of suitors angling to acquire TikTok as a new ban deadline approaches. According to The New York Times, the retailer has made a “last-minute bid” to buy the app,

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 President JD Vance said on Thursday as bids mounted.

Saturday is meant to be the deadline for TikTok parent company Bytedance to sell the platform to a non-Chinese buyer or face its possible ban in the United States. According to a source familiar with the White House led discussions about a deal,

Amazon declined to comment, while TikTok and its parent company ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. Shares of Amazon rose 1.3 percent in a volume spike after the report.

E-commerce giant Amazon put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok days before the April 5 deadline for the company to find a non-Chinese buyer or shut down in the United States. President Donald Trump is still weighing his top choice as other suitors line up with offers,

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

Amazon has made a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, which faces a US ban if not sold by its Chinese owner, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.