{"id":919221,"date":"2025-04-03T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919221"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:15:31","slug":"amazon-submits-last-minute-bid-to-purchase-tiktok-ahead-of-us-ban-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/03\/amazon-submits-last-minute-bid-to-purchase-tiktok-ahead-of-us-ban-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon submits last-minute bid to purchase TikTok ahead of US ban deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has bid to purchase TikTok in an eleventh-hour pitch as a US ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday. The Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. US President Donald Trump, on Inauguration Day, gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that had been upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court in the US, which said the ban was necessary for national security.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, TikTok\u2019s Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, must sell the platform to an approved buyer or take it offline in the US. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has bid to purchase TikTok in an eleventh-hour pitch as a US ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday. The Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. US President Donald Trump, on Inauguration Day, gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that had been upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court in the US, which said the ban was necessary for national security. Under the law, TikTok\u2019s Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, must sell the platform to an approved buyer or take it offline in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}