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Amazon makes late bid to buy TikTok

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TikTok went dark in the United States on Jan. 18 after the Supreme Court upheld the law to ban the app unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sold its U.S. operations.
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US venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in social media platform TikTok as part of an effort led by Donald Trump to wrest control of the popular video app from its Chinese o...
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There will be a meeting at the Oval Office involving Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, national security adviser Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabb...
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