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ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms: sources
China's ByteDance is planning a U.S. initial public offering of TikTok Global, the new company that will operate the popular short video app, should its proposed deal be cleared by the U.S. government, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Nobody Knows What’s Happening With TikTok
Deal makers involved in the talks to sell TikTok are exasperated.
China ministry on TikTok urges U.S. to respect fair competition
China urges the United States to respect the principles of the market economy and fair competition, the foreign ministry said on Thursday when asked about ByteDance saying China will need to approve its TikTok deal in the United States.
ByteDance says China will have to approve its U.S. TikTok deal
China will need to approve ByteDance's proposed deal with Oracle Corp for its TikTok app, the Chinese company said on Thursday, indicating how its bid to stave off a ban in the United States could be further complicated.
Beijing unlikely to block ByteDance deal with Oracle, say experts
Analysts believe ‘technical partnership’ will satisfy China since no data or code are being sold
Opinion | Will Oracle Solve Trump’s TikTok Problem?
Forcing the unspooling of a complex global company is not as easy as yelling about the “China menace.”
U.S. offers to exempt employees, contractors from TikTok executive order
The United States has offered to exclude from President Donald Trump's executive order transactions that involve TikTok employees and contractors performing "their regular job duties and responsibilities," according to a court document filed late Monday, granting a reprieve...
ByteDance's Chinese version of TikTok hits 600 million daily users
Douyin, the Chinese version of short video app TikTok, hit 600 million daily active users in August, an executive with parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday, a 50% jump since the start of the year.
How ByteDance's CEO balked at selling TikTok's U.S. business
ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang's decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft Corp in favor of a partnership with Oracle Corp was the culmination of pressure from the Beijing-based firm's investors as it searched...
Trump says no extension of TikTok deadline for China’s ByteDance
China’s ByteDance is likely to miss the US president’s September 15 deadline to divest the American operations of popular video-sharing app.
ByteDance Is Poised to Miss U.S. Deadline for TikTok Sale
ByteDance Ltd. is increasingly likely to miss a Trump administration deadline for the sale of its TikTok U.S. operations after new Chinese regulations complicated negotiations with bidders Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
WSJ News Exclusive | TikTok, U.S. Discuss Ways to Avoid Sale
ByteDance, the video-sharing app’s Chinese parent company, is in talks with officials over possible arrangements that would avert a full sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to people familiar with the matter.
ByteDance to hand out cash bonuses to staff amid U.S. pressure on TikTok
TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it would hand out cash bonuses to employees working to help it "overcome challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and changing macro environment".
WSJ News Exclusive | China Launches Initiative to Set Global Data-Security Rules
China is launching its own initiative to set global standards on data security, countering U.S. efforts to persuade like-minded countries to ringfence their networks from Chinese technology.
ByteDance Chief Reconsiders TikTok Options After New China Rules
As Donald Trump threatened to ban the U.S. operations of the hit app TikTok, Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd.’s choices seemed to be limited to selling the business for $20 billion to $30 billion or leaving empty-handed.
Why Does Walmart Want TikTok? Looking to China May Explain
The app’s Chinese version, Douyin, is trying to become a mobile marketplace where video stars promote products. That could be a model for the U.S. retail giant if it acquires TikTok.
TikTok Is Said to Wrestle With Two Competing Offers
The sale of the video app’s U.S. operations is entering its final stages, with two groups having submitted bids.
American and Chinese Officials Take Pulse on Trade Deal, Six Months In
Trade negotiators from the two countries met by videoconference to review the progress in enacting their trade deal.
TikTok Sues U.S. Government Over Trump Ban
The suit escalates a bitter back-and-forth between the popular video app and American officials.
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok
Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that Chinese internet companies posed a threat as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook.
