{"id":194114,"date":"2025-02-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=931357"},"modified":"2025-02-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:00:00","slug":"tiktok-bidders-talk-directly-with-white-house-not-bytedance-axios-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2025\/02\/14\/tiktok-bidders-talk-directly-with-white-house-not-bytedance-axios-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok bidders talk directly with White House, not ByteDance, Axios reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(Reuters) -Parties interested in buying the popular short-video app TikTok are talking directly with the White House, and not with its Chinese owner ByteDance, Axios reported on Friday.<br \/>\nTikTok's fate has been up in the air since a law requiring ByteDance to either sell it on national security grounds or face a ban took effect on January 19. President Donald Trump, after taking office on January 20, signed an executive order seeking to delay by 75 days enforcement of the law.<br \/>\nThe White House, TikTok, and ByteDance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<br \/>\nTrump has expressed interest in the U.S. government owning a stake in the app that is used by nearly half of all Americans.<br \/>\nThe turmoil at TikTok has attracted several potential buyers, including former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who have expressed interest in the fast-growing business that analysts estimate could be worth as much as $50 billion.<br \/>\nTrump has said that he was in talks with multiple people over TikTok's purchase and would likely have a decision on the app's future in February. He said on Thursday that the 75-day deadline on TikTok could be extended.<br \/>\n(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; editing by Costas Pitas)<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Parties interested in buying the popular short-video app TikTok are talking directly with the White House, and not with its Chinese owner ByteDance, Axios reported on Friday.<br \/>\nTikTok's fate has been up in the air since a law requiring ByteDa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639,692,194,222,465,1332],"tags":[3686,10309,3472,3544,10315,2172,10310],"class_list":["post-194114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-canada","category-news-chinese-law","category-online-video","category-social-media","category-white-house","tag-boycott","tag-bytedance","tag-chinese","tag-donald-trump","tag-media-intelligence","tag-national-security","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194115,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194114\/revisions\/194115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}