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Amazon puts a last-minute bid on TikTok

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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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TikTok was temporarily banned in the country because former President Joe Biden signed legislation in April 2024 that required Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19, 2025, citing nationa...
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Congress passed a law last year forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban.
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