Real estate mogul Frank McCourt, who is trying to buy TikTok's U.S. arm, reiterated his investor group's ability to make a deal and still comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday. Why it matters: Billionaire McCourt says he has the money and the technology to keep TikTok running on American phones.
Businessman Frank McCourt is "open-minded" to keeping TikTok's existing investors, including the founder, involved after any deal to buy the U.S. operations of the Chinese-owned short-form video app,
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.
A group led by Kevin O'Leary and billionaire Frank McCourt said it had submitted a bid for TikTok to the video app's Chinese owner Bytedance.
The popular platform could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law, while many parties have expressed interest in buying the asset.
The Supreme Court is set to hear opening arguments in ByteDance’s case to block a sale.
Business moguls should be prepared to spend tens of billions of dollars for TikTok’s U.S. operations should parent company ByteDance decide to sell.
Olympique de Marseille’s owner Frank McCourt has announced via a group he created called Project Liberty that he is planning to put together a consortium of investors to buy the US operations of
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.
Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary is partnering up with another investor in a bid to save TikTok and hopes China and the Supreme Court will allow them to make it “wonderful
Frank McCourt has expressed a willingness to retain TikTok's existing investors in the deal to acquire its U.S. operations from ByteDance. The bid, valued at $20 billion, includes contingencies to address national security concerns.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up past examples of the U.S. blocking broadcasting companies from having ties to foreign governments and brought up the government’s concerns about TikTok collecting data on U.S. users, which he said “seems like a huge concern for the future of the country.”