Amazon, offered to buy Tiktok’s American division: the letter to Vance and Trump’s ultimatum

The Amazon e-commerce giant presented an offer to buy American activities of Tiktokthe popular app whose American division must be sold by April 5, a deadline set by a decree of the US President, Donald Trump. It reports the New York Times citing some sources close to the deal, according to which the offer came through a letter to vice president JD Vance And to the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

The negotiations

According to the Financial Timeshowever, the portal founded by Jeff Bezos is not the only one interested in the Chinese social network. Even the company of the US Venture Capital Andreessen Horowitz It would be in negotiation to invest in Tiktok. In recent weeks it has also heard of a possible involvement of Microsoft with Bytedance (Chinese company owner of Tiktok) for American activities. The social network, in fact, in the United States has about 170 million users.

Amazon to Wall Street

With the rumors of his offer for Tiktok, the title of the e-commerce giant a Wall Street earns 2.1%.

Block to Tiktok USA

A question opened on the future of Tiktok in the USA since the first days of Trump’s second mandate. The American president, just installed in the White House, had ordered a blocking of the activities of the social network On the US territory that should have come into force on January 19th and be definitive. The next day, the tycoon has granted a 75 -day extension waiting to find a solution, or a stars and stripes company willing to acquire the USA Division. The deadline, in fact, is scheduled for Saturday 5 April.