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 ...

The app, which was set to be banned, now has a bit more time to find a home and address national security issues ...

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

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.

TikTok denied a report that China is considering a sale to allow Elon Musk to take ownership of the social media app’s U.S. operations following a Supreme Court ban.

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 ...

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 ...

(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?

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

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