WASHINGTON – 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.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT The short video app used by 170 mil

As the Jan. 19 date for a TikTok ban approaches, another name is emerging as a potential buyer: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who already owns X.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock saw significant gains Friday thanks to multiple catalysts. The gains took place in conjunction with a 1% gain for the S&P 500 index and a 1.5% gain for the Nasdaq Composite index.

The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.

Chinese authorities appear to be softening their stance on the fate of TikTok, possibly paving the way for Beijing-based ByteDance to begin talks with American investors, according to a report, citing

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.

It’s only fitting that TikTok’s fate turn into a wild dance. As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs up the constitutionality of a proposed ban on the popular video app, Beijing has pirouetted into the possibility of letting ByteDance sell it to Elon Musk,

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so. "I would be, if he wanted to buy it," Trump told reporters when asked if he was open to Musk buying the platform.

Tesla ( TSLA) stock jumped more than 6% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a countrywide ban starting next week — and Musk is reportedly the most likely candidate.

Donald Trump just issued an executive order that gives popular social media giant TikTok just 75 days to consider selling ownership rights to a potential US buyer. While Trump did express his desire for both Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison as top picks for buyers,

Kingdom Holding already holds stakes in Elon Musk’s social media platform X and his artificial intelligence startup xAI.