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Amazon has made a bid to acquire TikTok as the popular social media app faces a looming deadline to be divested from its China-based owner or face a ban in the U.S. that could take effect this month....
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Amazon.com has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the offer, days ahead of a deadline the short-form video app is stari...
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Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share user data — such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers — with China’s authoritarian gove...

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