As the deadline for the weekend, to find the buyer, there are bidding on social media.
Amazon and a separate consortium run by the founder of only Fans Tim Stokely are the latest hats for the ring for Tiktok. The site is in the face of the date of April 5 to reach a contract to find a non-Chinese buyer under the threat that he will be banned in the United States.
American officials aroused concerns about China's safety with China, whose Tiktok and the BYEDANE owner denied. Trump administration officials meet on Wednesday to discuss various Tiktok options.
The startup ZOOP, run by Stokely, the founder of the Social Media website for adult, Ondlyfans, cooperates with the Cryptocurrency Foundation to present the late Tiktoku auction plan, they said Reuters on Wednesday.
The US administration clerk confirmed that Amazon sent a letter to the vice president of JD Vance and the Secretary of the Howard Lutnicka Trade Department. Amazon refused to comment, while Tiktok and Bytedance did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.
Amazon shares increased by about two percent after news about the Tiktok offer at the last minute.
Amazon has long eaten ambitions for the internal social media network that could help sell more goods and like the younger audience. He bought a live video site in 2014 for almost $ 1 billion in the USA and the Goodreads Review website in 2013 as a result of efforts to build a real social network.
Amazon also developed and tested a short film and photographic channel similar to Tiktok called Inspire that it closed at the beginning of this year.
US President Donald Trump said last month his administration was in contact with four different groups about the sale of the platform, without identifying them.
Private Equity Blackstone discusses joining the non-Chinese shareholders of Bytedance, led by Susquehanna International Group and General Atlantic, in the field of bringing Fresh Capital to bid on the American business Tiktok, said Reuters last week.
The American company Venture Capital Andreessen Horowitz also talks about adding external funds to the purchase of Chinese investors of Tiktok, as part of an offer conducted by Oracle and other American investors to buy it from Bytedance, reports the Financial Times on Tuesday.
Conversations conducted by the White House are associated with plans to withdraw an American entity for Tiktok and divorce Chinese property in a new business below the 20 % threshold required by US law, said Reuters last month.
The New York Times first reported Amazon's involvement on Wednesday. Different parties that were involved in conversations do not seem to be seriously treating Amazon offers.
The future of the application used by almost half of all Americans has been in the air since the Act on 2024, passed with overwhelming bilateral support required by Bejtedation to sell on January 19.
Officials from Washington stated that the property of Tiktok by Bytedance makes him a Chinese government and speculated that Beijing could use the application to influence activities against the United States and collect data about Americans.