{"id":21527,"date":"2025-02-04T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21527"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:27:28","slug":"how-a-sale-of-tiktok-would-work-and-who-might-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21527","title":{"rendered":"How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new law says TikTok must be sold to a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. President Trump has thrown out a lot of options for a potential sale.<\/p>\n

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There’s a new parlor game on Wall Street: guessing TikTok\u2019s next owner.<\/p>\n

President Trump signed an executive order in January that delayed enforcement of a law that banned the popular video app. Under the order, the app must now be sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April.<\/p>\n

Since he signed the order, Mr. Trump has dropped a flurry of sometimes conflicting hints about how the next several weeks could play out: He has suggested he wants a bidding war; he has said the United States should own part of the app; he has named Microsoft and Elon Musk as potential buyers, even as others have raised their hands.<\/p>\n

But the mechanics of a potential sale are still murky.<\/p>\n

ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s owner, has said for years that it cannot sell the app, in part because the Chinese government would not allow the export of its all-important algorithm.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not clear TikTok\u2019s American investors are interested in a sale, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a number of alternatives we can talk to President Trump and his team about that are short of selling the company that allow the company to continue to operate, maybe with a change of control of some kind, but short of having to sell,\u201d Bill Ford, chief executive of General Atlantic, told CNBC. General Atlantic, a private equity firm, is an investor in ByteDance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is what we know about what happens next:<\/p>\n