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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 to go into effect Saturday.
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U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in TikTok as part of an effort led by President Donald Trump to wrest control of the popular video app from its Chinese owners, the ...
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There will be a meeting at the Oval Office involving Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabb...

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Amazon.com has put in a last-minute offer to buy short-form video app TikTok, New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.
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