Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok as the April 5 deadline determining the popular video app’s fate quickly approaches. Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant has joined an unnamed list of buyers that President Donald Trump has said are interested in acquiring the popular app.

Amazon has put in a last-minute bid for TikTok’s US business as Donald Trump seeks to broker a deal to sell the app before a Saturday deadline.

Amazon.com has put in a last-minute offer to buy short-form video app TikTok, New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

Amazon submitted a bid to the White House to purchase the social media app TikTok from its Chinese owners, CNBC has confirmed. The company sent its proposal in a letter this week to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,

A few richie-riches have made offers to buy TikTok, but Amazon is the most high-profile potential buyer thus far. And the marriage would be a match made in capitalist heaven. If you’ve spent any time on TikTok,

White House to purchase the social video app TikTok from its Chinese owners, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company sent its proposal in a letter to Vice President JD Vance, who’s heading efforts to help facilitate a sale of the US operations of the video service ahead of a deadline later this week,

Although it’s unclear if ByteDance plans to sell TikTok, several possible bidders have come forward in the past few months.

The move comes just as Amazon formally shut down Inspire, its own TikTok competitor, in February. Amazon’s approach adds to an already full table. One deal reportedly involves private equity firm Blackstone and tech company Oracle joining TikTok as investors without a sale.