{"id":981564,"date":"2025-12-22T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981564"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:41:16","slug":"bytedance-signs-deal-to-sell-over-80-per-cent-of-tiktoks-us-assets-to-avoid-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/bytedance-signs-deal-to-sell-over-80-per-cent-of-tiktoks-us-assets-to-avoid-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance signs deal to sell over 80 per cent of TikTok\u2019s US assets to avoid ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three \u200bmajor investors to sell just over 80% of the company&#8217;s U.S. assets to American and global investors to \u200cavoid a U.S. government ban, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The deal is a major step toward resolving years of uncertainty about the short video app&#8217;s future in the \u200dUnited States since August 2020, when then President Donald Trump first tried unsuccessfully to ban the app that is now used regularly by more \u2060than 170 million Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owner, ByteDance, signed binding agreements with three \u200bmajor investors to sell just over 80% of the company&#8217;s U.S. assets to American and global investors to \u200cavoid a U.S. government ban, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees on Thursday. The deal is a major step toward resolving years of uncertainty about the short video app&#8217;s future in the \u200dUnited States since August 2020, when then President Donald Trump first tried unsuccessfully to ban the app that is now used regularly by more \u2060than 170 million Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981564","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}