Amazon has reportedly made a last-minute play to buy all of TikTok, the wildly popular video app thats facing a US ban.
TikTok, which faces an April deadline to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or get banned in the US, is receiving multiple offers for sale, according to the New York Times.
But don’t expect this to shake up the dealmaking just yet: administration officials are reportedly not taking Amazon’s bid seriously.
Amazon sent a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to express their last-minute interest.
Amazon’s move underscores the last-minute chaos in Washington surrounding TikTok’s future.
Multiple billion-dollar corporations are in the mix to snap up the video app: Oracle, Walmart, and Microsoft have all been rumored to have interest in the app.
Even popular YouTuber Mr. Beast is said to be in on the action.