White House to hold meeting on TikTok

There will be a meeting at the Oval Office involving Vice President JD Vance, Commerce Secretary
Private equity firm Blackstone is discussing joining ByteDance's existing non-Chinese shareholders, led by
On Sunday, Trump said a deal with ByteDance to sell the short video app used by 170 million Americans would be struck before the deadline on
Trump set the deadline in January for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a U.S. ban on national security grounds due to have taken effect that month under a 2024 law.
U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in discussions to invest in TikTok as part of an effort led by Trump to gain control of the app, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Silicon Valley Trump supporter and Andreessen Horowitz's co-founder,
Reuters reported on Friday that private equity firm Blackstone is evaluating making a small minority investment in TikTok's U.S. operations, according to two people familiar with the matter.
TikTok and Andreessen Horowitz did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in ByteDance to raise their stakes and acquire the short-video app's U.S. operations, Reuters reported last month.
Trump said last month that his administration was in touch with four different groups about a prospective TikTok deal, without identifying them.
In the closely watched sale of TikTok, the
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