Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank fame has announced that he is joining a consortium pushing to buy TikTok before the company’s ban in the US. The deadline for the Chinese-owned company’s sale or demise is just eleven days away; and the company’s C-Suite is desperately trying to make a deal with the incoming Trump administration.
"In my opinion, TikTok should not be banned in the USA, even though such a ban may benefit the X platform,” Elon Musk wrote on X in April. "Doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. It is not what America stands for." To note, a TikTok spokesperson told the BBC that the Bloomberg report was "pure fiction."
The owners behind TikTok and other Chinese officials are debating what to do in the event that the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a law that would force a sale or ban TikTok in the U.S. Things are looking like they might be ruled that way,
President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order aimed at rescuing TikTok from being banned from U.S. app stores in four days. What To Know: According to the Washington Post, sources familiar with the matter said Trump is brainstorming strategies to save TikTok from the law signed by President Joe Biden set to ban the app on Sunday.
Blaine Anderson, founder and CEO of Dating by Blaine, posted on X about her "Shark Tank" experience and why her deal with Mark Cuban didn't work out.
The group, which calls itself The People's Bid for TikTok and is also backed by "Shark Tank"-famous investor Kevin O'Leary, said Thursday it had delivered a proposal to ByteDance to acquire TikTok ...
What happens on your smartphone once a US law banning the social media app TikTok takes effect on Jan. 19? It will depend on the actions of TikTok parent ByteDance, President-elect Donald Trump and some of the largest tech giants in the US.
Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary gives the latest on his last-minute bid to buy TikTok ahead of it’s looming ban in the United States.
The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.
In less than four years, the company has turned into a "multi-seven-figure brand" thanks in part to its colorful social media strategy.