Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure TikTok stays online in the US — and suggested there may be

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

President Trump indicated that he would be open to Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle CEO Larry Ellison buying TikTok.

General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford said on Wednesday that a deal would get done to save TikTok in the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that halted a ban on the app for 75 days.

At a press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump suggested that he’s open to the idea of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed openness to the possibility of Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok during a press briefing. Trump suggested TikTok could be valued at $1 trillion with a U.

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be supportive of the world's richest man and his close aide, Elon Musk, buying TikTok "if he wanted to". Trump was asked if he would be open to the billionaire founder of Tesla buying the short-video platform facing a nationwide ban in the US after the Supreme Court last week upheld a law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.

After delaying the ban on TikTok President Trump has said he would be open to Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle chairman Larry Ellison buying TikTok. However, he would want either of them as part of a joint venture with the U.

Trump says he’s open to Elon Musk buying TikTok ‘if he wants to’ - Chinese officials want acquisitions to be decided by companies ‘in accordance with market principles’

Trump suggests tech moguls Elon Musk and Larry Ellison as potential buyers to secure TikTok’s U.S. operations.