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.

President Donald Trump said the US was close to unveiling a plan that would spare the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from a US ban, with multiple investors involved in discussions for a deal.

President Donald Trump stated that the US is close to presenting a plan that will prevent the Chinese social media platform TikTok from being blocked in America, reports Bloomberg. "We’re very close to a deal with a very good group of people,

Advisers to President Donald Trump are expected Wednesday to present the president with options for a deal to invest in TikTok that involves a number of well-heeled venture capital, private equity funds and tech companies,

President Donald Trump said his administration was "very close" to a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if not sold by its Chinese owner by the weekend."We're very close to a deal with a very good group of people,

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The White House really wants to get a deal to sell Chinese short-video app TikTok to a US company and remove all possibilities of the Mainland using it as a way to spy on Americans. Except, apparently,

While the deal is still in early discussions and subject to change, it comes just days before a US-set April 5 deadline.

President Trump was briefed Wednesday on a framework to keep the video-sharing app operational.

After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security.

Saturday is the deadline for Trump’s presidential action, which kept TikTok alive for an extra 75 days after the Jan. 19 deadline that had been set by Congress and signed into law by former President Joe Biden last year.

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.