The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

Despite the increasing number of potential buyers, neither the app nor its Chinese owner have confirmed they will do a deal.

Amazon has told the White House it is interested in buying TikTok ahead of a key deadline by which its parent company, China-based ByteDance, must either sell the popular social media app or face a ban in the U.

President Donald Trump is expected to decide the fate of Chinese video-sharing app TikTok’s operations in the U.S. during a White House meeting

The White House could announce the outline of a deal as the deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer approaches this week, Wedbush analysts said in a research note. Wedbush views TikTok "as one of the biggest and first chips on the poker table around US/China relations.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump used TikTok as an example of how tariffs can be used to negotiate with other countries.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would consider a deal for TikTok where China approves the sale of the short video app in exchange for relief from U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Trump said that a deal is close on Tiktok,

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at the looming deadline — again — for a US ban-or-sale of TikTok.