President Donald Trump wants Communist China-based ByteDance to sell social media platform TikTok, but serious buyers have been scarce — until maybe today. Maybe.
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Details are scarce, too. The New York Times report relies on three anonymous sources “familiar with the bid,” but what we do know is juicy. The bid was made in a letter addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to one of the NYT’s unnamed sources.
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The bidder? None other than Amazon, the online retailing giant with an estimated $79 billion in cash and equivalents just begging to be spent. TikTok, if its best-in-class dopamine-jacking algorithm is included in the sale, is worth an estimated $100-$200 billion.
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