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Americans are reportedly set to get a new version of TikTok as the China-based ByteDance video sharing platform is building a new version of its app for users in the United States, Reuters reported quoting The Information report. This comes ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. US President Donald Trump has said that he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal. He said the United States "pretty much" has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.TikTok has developed a plan to launch the new app to U.S. app stores on September 5, the report said. Last month, Trump extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok.The report added that TikTok users will eventually have to download the new app to be able to continue using the service, although the existing app will work until March of next year, though the timeline could change.A deal had been in the works earlier this year to spin off TikTok's U.S. operations into a new U.S.-based firm, majority-owned and operated by U.S. investors. That was put on hold after China indicated it would not approve it following Trump's announcements of steep tariffs on Chinese goods.Trump said the United States will probably have to get a deal approved by China.Trump did not say who the potential buyer was. The president said earlier in the week that he had found a buyer for the U.S. branch of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that faces a ban adopted by Congress over national security concerns. A 2024 law required that the app effectively be banned in the United States unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold it to a non-Chinese company. Congress was concerned that sensitive user data could end up in the hands of the Chinese government.It was not clear if the deal would comply with some of the requirements Congress adopted for a sale of TikTok, particularly if ByteDance chose not to share the app's algorithm with the U.S. buyers. Private equity firms have been hesitant to invest in a deal without some form of indemnification.A1. Parent company of TikTok is Byte Dance.A2. Donald Trump did not say who the potential buyer was.
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