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ByteDance races to salvage TikTok deal after Trump vows ban
By James Politi, Arash Massoudi & Aime Williams
Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30 billion
By Jessica Bursztynsky
How TikTok's Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide (Published 2020)
By Raymond Zhong
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TikTok: The story of a social media giant
By Sophia Smith Galer & Joe Tidy
TikTok parent ByteDance accuses Facebook of 'plagiarism and smear' as it goes on the front foot
By Arjun Kharpal
ByteDance Said to Offer to Sell TikTok's U.S. Operations (Published 2020)
By Raymond Zhong & Steve Lohr
Microsoft pursuing TikTok purchase by September 15th, may invite US investors to deal
By Matthew Panzarino
Apple is not interested in buying TikTok
By Russell Brandom
How TikTok users are reacting to Trump's possible US ban
By Kaya Yurieff
TikTok could have been China's Nintendo.
By Joshua Keating
The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban
By Nicholas Thompson
Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
By Michael Schuman
Why Trump may force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell it
By Russ Mitchell & Suhauna Hussain
Trump says he's banning TikTok in the U.S.
By Josh Lederman, Kevin Collier & Jo Ling Kent
TikTok founder defends potential Microsoft sale
By Dearbail Jordan
Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
By Dearbail Jordan
Beyond TikTok: Who else might President Trump ban?
By Leo Kelion & Chris Baraniuk
Trump says he will ban TikTok
By Brian Fung
President Trump says he will ban TikTok in United States
By Sarah Herndon & Mark Osborne
Trump says he will ban TikTok through an executive action
By Riya Bhattacharjee, Amanda Macias & Jordan Novet
Trump Says Microsoft Can Bid for TikTok
By Ana Swanson & Mike Isaac
TikTok, Trump and an Impulse to Act as C.E.O. to Corporate America (Published 2020)
By Ana Swanson & Michael D. Shear
Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App (Published 2020)
By Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson & Mike Isaac
TikTok Ban: Creators Respond to Trump
By Taylor Lorenz
Trump says U.S. treasury should collect 'very substantial' portion of TikTok sale to American firm
By Rachel Lerman, Jeff Stein & Jeanne Whalen
Montana TikTok ban comes amid global move toward restrictions
By Adam Taylor, Ruby Mellen & Jennifer Hassan
Trump says he plans to bar TikTok from operating in the U.S.
By Ellen Nakashima, Rachel Lerman & Jeanne Whalen
TikTok sale: Trump approves Microsoft’s plan but says US should get a cut of any deal
By Helen Davidson
Trump threatens that TikTok will “close down” on September 15th unless an American company buys it
By Adi Robertson
Why Microsoft wants TikTok
By Tom Warren
Banning TikTok isn't that far out of an idea.
By Mary Harris