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New Extension Gives TikTok Parent More Time to Arrange Sale

By Christopher Stern
· · Source: The Information

U.S. authorities have extended the deadline on their national-security review of TikTok, giving the video app’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance more time to strike a deal to sell the business. The review, which had been slated to wrap up this Friday, is now set to conclude on Dec. 4. It’s the second extension that the company has received since the Trump administration announced that it...

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