YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison are names that have floated around in the past week.

Potential TikTok buyers are lining up as President Trump and the Chinese government show heightened interest in striking a deal to sell the popular video-sharing platform in the face of a U.S. ban. YouTube star MrBeast is the latest to join the ranks of prospective buyers,

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.

Investing.com-- Wedbush said on Wednesday that recent weakness in Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares- amid a flurry of ratings downgrades and worsening sales in China- was overdone, especially before the company’s December quarter earnings.

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.

Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, said the social media ... TikTok's bids to be submitted in the coming weeks, with ByteDance still considering the possibility that Musk could ...

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McCourt has made a formal offer to ByteDance to acquire TikTok's ... TikTok operational in the U.S. is a worthwhile pursuit, Wedbush Securities' Ives said. "There is much more at stake here ...

Wedbush Securities hiked its base case price target on Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to $550 from $515 on its view that the golden age of autonomous, FSD, and Optimus has arrived. The firm has growing confidence in the demand delivery story for 2025 along with a fast tracking of the autonomous future under the Trump Administration.

TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect.

Dan Ives, an analyst for Wedbush Securities, said in a recent note ... a sister app also developed by ByteDance. RedNote, a Chinese social media app that became increasingly popular as a TikTok ...