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1. • • On the face of it, the answer would appear to be “no.” It was first incorporated in California in April 2015, according to US court documents. TikTok has never existed in mainland China, though the app was available in Hong Kong until July 2020, when it pulled out shortly after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in the city.
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   Will TikTok be banned if China doesn't sell its stake?

   • TikTok has filed a lawsuit to try and block the US from banning it if its Chinese parent company does not sell its stake in the social media app. Fears that data about millions of Americans could land in China's hands drove Congressional efforts to try and split TikTok from the Beijing-based company ByteDance,

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   Should TikTok be fully acquired by a non-China Company?

   • “The fears about TikTok are more likely to be answered if the company is fully acquired by a non-China-based entity than if ByteDance retains any ownership,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “If ByteDance is completely out, neither Treasury nor Cfius has anything to worry about.”

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   Who owns TikTok?

   • A year later, it launched TikTok, an international version. TikTok was banned in China but gained a billion users in five years. It is now run by a limited liability company based in Los Angeles and Singapore but is essentially owned by ByteDance. While its founders own only 20% of ByteDance, it's the controlling stake in the company.

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   Does Microsoft own TikTok?

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3. www.ft.com › content › 934ad8ed-1772-4813-bdb8-43baMicrosoft in talks to buy TikTok - Financial Times

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   Jul 31, 2020 · Microsoft has held talks to acquire TikTok, whose Chinese owner ByteDance faces mounting pressure from the US government to sell the video sharing app or risk being blacklisted in the country,...

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   Sep 28, 2021 · Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has described the proposed deal to buy TikTok, under pressure from the Trump White House, as "the strangest thing". In August 2020, as President Trump...

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   Aug 6, 2020 · TikTok does not operate in China, and such a deal would not extend to its China-facing sister app Douyin. Meanwhile, Microsoft executives have sought to assuage the Chinese government as...

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   Apr 25, 2024 · President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sells the app. TikTok plans to challenge the law in court, but...

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   Mar 14, 2024 · If the Senate passes the bill and President Joe Biden signs it into law, ByteDance, TikTok's China-based parent company, would have to sell the app to an American company within...

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   Aug 6, 2020 · More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft to put down roots in China may soon bring a partial pay-off, if it succeeds in steering through the purchase of TikTok’s US business.