Reports about Chinese officials eyeing Musk as the buyer of TikTok’s U.S. operations are “not a total shock” given Musk’s relationship with Trump, says Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.

Musk acquired X (then Twitter) in October 2022 after a highly publicized back and forth, in which he gave up on the ...

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok.

Elon Musk is being eyed by Chinese authorities as a potential buyer of TikTok. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Read also: Can Elon Musk save TikTok? Here’s what a potential deal could look like. Tesla investors have been down this road before. In 2022, when Musk acquired Twitter (now X) for $44 billion ...

After previously opposing the idea of a TikTok sale to avert a looming ban, the Chinese government may have found an owner it could live with: Elon Musk. Chinese officials – who are expected to ...

The latest candidate to become the potential U.S. face of TikTok: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. A ban on TikTok in the United States could go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, if Beijing-based ...

With rumors swirling that the tech titan could purchase the soon-to-be-banned social-media app, this is what we know so far.

(Seriously.) So why not have Elon Musk swoop in with a deal to buy TikTok from ByteDance, the Chinese company that currently owns it, to get around a law that's meant to ban the service on January 19?

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to Elon Musk buying TikTok, and floated a proposal that the United States ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla ...