{"id":919250,"date":"2025-04-03T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919250"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:30:28","slug":"amazon-sends-jd-vance-letter-to-buy-tiktok-as-ban-deadline-looms-what-makes-amazons-bid-important-for-all-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/03\/amazon-sends-jd-vance-letter-to-buy-tiktok-as-ban-deadline-looms-what-makes-amazons-bid-important-for-all-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sends JD Vance letter to buy TikTok as ban deadline looms; what makes Amazon&#8217;s bid important for all buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly submitted a bid to the White House to acquire the popular social video app TikTok from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. According to a report in New York Times, quoting a source familiar with the matter, the proposal was sent in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who are leading the administration&#8217;s efforts to facilitate a sale of TikTok&#8217;s US operations ahead of the app&#8217;s upcoming ban deadline. However, the bid is reportedly not being seriously considered by the White House, according to an anonymous source.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Amazon&#8217;s bid important for all buyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly submitted a bid to the White House to acquire the popular social video app TikTok from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. According to a report in New York Times, quoting a source familiar with the matter, the proposal was sent in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who are leading the administration&#8217;s efforts to facilitate a sale of TikTok&#8217;s US operations ahead of the app&#8217;s upcoming ban deadline. However, the bid is reportedly not being seriously considered by the White House, according to an anonymous source. What makes Amazon&#8217;s bid important for [&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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919250","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=919250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}