Amazon, AppLovin Bid To Buy TikTok Ahead of Deadline, Reports Say

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Amazon and AppLovin have reportedly submitted bids to buy TikTok, ahead of a U.S. ban set to go into effect this weekend if no deal is reached with the app’s Chinese parent company.
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Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

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Amazon reportedly bids to buy TikTok as deadline looms

Amazon.com AMZN-Q has put in a last-minute offer to buy all of short-form video app TikTok, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the bid.
U.S. President Donald Trump will consider on Wednesday a final proposal rel……


Amazon submits bid for TikTok to the White House with U.S. sale deadline nearing

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Major global economies prepare for Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs

Major trading partners of the United States have vowed to respond to Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, amid concerns they will have negative economic impacts around the world.

The US president is expected to announce sweeping import duties on many global economies around 7am Thursday AEDT for immediate effect.

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North America is ‘dripping’ down into Earth’s mantle, scientists discover

An ancient slab of Earth’s crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day’s North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say.

The slab’s pull has created giant “drips” that hang from the underside of the continent down to about 400 miles (640 kilometers) deep inside the mantle, according to a new study.

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