{"id":24956,"date":"2025-03-28T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24956"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:26:48","slug":"blackstone-considers-small-investment-in-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24956","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.<\/p>\n

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The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the Chinese-owned app to change its ownership or face a U.S. ban under federal law, two people familiar with the situation said.<\/p>\n

Investing in TikTok would give Blackstone the chance to take a bite of one of the most popular social media applications in the world, which has over 170 million American users. It is unclear if any investment \u2014 which would likely be a fraction of the size of Blackstone\u2019s typical deals \u2014 will move forward, and other investors are also circling the app, which is owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance, four people familiar with the talks said.<\/p>\n

If an investment happens, it could boost favor with President Trump, who has made it a mission to save TikTok from disappearing under the federal law. Last year, Congress passed the law that forces a sale of the app because of national security concerns related to its Chinese ownership.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump extended the deadline for a deal in January, and has suggested he could do so again if an agreement isn\u2019t reached next week. He also suggested this week that he might relax upcoming tariffs on China<\/a> in exchange for the country\u2019s support of a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Blackstone\u2019s talks add to TikTok\u2019s chaotic history in the United States. The video app has repeatedly wriggled out of political efforts to shut it down in the country. In January, the app went dark in the United States for about 12 hours before flickering back to life. A spokesperson for Blackstone said the firm did not comment on deal speculation. Neither TikTok or the White House responded to requests for comment. Reuters earlier reported<\/a> Blackstone\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n

As April 5 approaches, discussion about potential suitors for the app has intensified. Mr. Trump has been repeatedly approached by parties pitching him ideas, and his interest in different arrangements can be fleeting, two other people close to the talks say.<\/p>\n

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The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the Chinese-owned app to change its ownership or face a U.S. ban under federal law, two people familiar with the situation said.Investing in TikTok would give Blackstone the chance to take a bite of one of the most popular social media applications in the world, which has over 170 million American users. It is unclear if any investment \u2014 which would likely be a fraction of the size of Blackstone\u2019s typical deals \u2014 will move forward, and other investors are also circling the app, which is owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance, four people familiar with the talks said.If an investment happens, it could boost favor with President Trump, who has made it a mission to save TikTok from disappearing under the federal law. Last year, Congress passed the law that forces a sale of the app because of national security concerns related to its Chinese ownership.Mr. Trump extended the deadline for a deal in January, and has suggested he could do so again if an agreement isn\u2019t reached next week. He also suggested this week that he might relax upcoming tariffs on China in exchange for the country\u2019s support of a deal.Blackstone\u2019s talks add to TikTok\u2019s chaotic history in the United States. The video app has repeatedly wriggled out of political efforts to shut it down in the country. In January, the app went dark in the United States for about 12 hours before flickering back to life. A spokesperson for Blackstone said the firm did not comment on deal speculation. Neither TikTok or the White House responded to requests for comment. Reuters earlier reported Blackstone\u2019s interest.As April 5 approaches, discussion about potential suitors for the app has intensified. Mr. Trump has been repeatedly approached by parties pitching him ideas, and his interest in different arrangements can be fleeting, two other people close to the talks say.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24958,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24959,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions\/24959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}