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Amazon Submits Last-Minute TikTok Bid

The Information · Kaya Yurieff · last updated

Amazon has submitted a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to a person familiar with the bid.

The company submitted the bid in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the person said, though parties involved in the TikTok sale talks …

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The U.S. Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law a measure banning TikTok if it weren’t sold by its Chinese ownership. But now-President Donald Trump gave the service a reprieve, and a sale of its U.S. operations appears imminent.

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