Amazon wants to buy TikTok

TikTok's future in the US is once again uncertain. On April 5, President Trump's extension to the 'sell or be banned' law expires, so if TikTok's US operations aren't sold by then, it will be banned again, as it was in January for a very brief few days when President Biden passed the baton to President Trump.
And now in the eleventh hour a new bidder is entering the fray: Amazon. Jeff Bezos' behemoth has allegedly put in a last-minute offer, one which Trump Administration officials reportedly aren't seriously considering. That's an interesting twist for sure.

Amazon has apparently approached Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the offer. Amazon unsurprisingly declined to comment.
Other offers for TikTok have been put forth by a group which includes YouTuber MrBeast, another one including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and even Perplexity AI, which wants to integrate TikTok into its search engine. There's also Oracle. All in all a pretty eclectic group of bidders.
President Trump has announced that he could extend the deadline for a deal once again if necessary, so perhaps nothing will happen this week. We'll just have to wait and see.
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Reader comments
- NeonHD
- 21 hours ago
- 6Fi
I'm sorry, what? Why wouldn't they take Amazon seriously? They're a legitimate multibillion corporation who owns the biggest cloud service in the world. Almost anything and everything is hosted on AWS. If you ask me, such a compa...
- potato4k
- 03 Apr 2025
- XZ8
LOL. Clearly we all are missing something. There's something behind the scenes that we don't know. I mean look at how quickly Trump applied tariffs. If TikTok is simply bad, the ban would be immediate. But now with the back-n-forth, and d...
- Cpt.Power
- 03 Apr 2025
- 0p}
Hello no. Leave tik tok be or just remove it from US nobody cares about useless blabbing from President Trump and his gayhole mouth forcing EV market to new taxes.