President Donald Trump said the US was close to unveiling a plan that would spare the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from a US ban, with multiple investors involved in discussions for a deal.

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,

While the deal is still in early discussions and subject to change, it comes just days before an April 5 deadline set by US law.

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Marketing platform AppLovin said on Thursday it has submitted a bid for TikTok assets outside of China, ahead of the April 5 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to find a non-Chinese buyer for the short video app used by 170 million Americans.

TikTok’s future is in limbo as another deadline looms. For some users, nothing has been the same since those 14 hours in January anyway.

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.