Donald Trump just issued an executive order that gives popular social media giant TikTok just 75 days to consider selling ownership rights to a potential US buyer. While Trump did express his desire for both Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison as top picks for buyers,
The president said he’s also open to another tech giant to acquire TikTok: Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. Ellison was present at the White House for a $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership between the Trump administration and OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. Oracle, a software company, houses most of TikTok's servers
Who will “save” TikTok? YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison have been floated as potential buyers of the app in the past week.
US President Trump has suggested that Elon Musk should buy TikTok with a government partnership. Here are all the details on this.
ANALYSIS: The chaotic unbanning of TikTok signals a new political fusion between corporate power and American authoritarianism — and Silicon Valley stands eager to serve, writes Io Dodds
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist.
WASHINGTON – General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the app for 75 days.
TikTok was only offline for 12 hours in the US before incoming president Donald Trump signalled that he would delay the nationwide ban of the Chinese-owned app.
Reports about Chinese officials eyeing Musk as the buyer of TikTok’s U.S. operations are “not a total shock” given Musk’s relationship with Trump, says Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.
The GIF-like viral video app that gave the world Logan Paul and Shawn Mendes had 200 million users at its peak
As the Jan. 19 date for a TikTok ban approaches, another name is emerging as a potential buyer: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who already owns X.