Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok as the April 5 deadline determining the popular video app’s fate quickly approaches. Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant has joined an unnamed list of buyers that President Donald Trump has said are interested in acquiring the popular app.

Amazon has put in a last-minute bid for TikTok’s US business as Donald Trump seeks to broker a deal to sell the app before a Saturday deadline.

Amazon.com has put in a last-minute offer to buy short-form video app TikTok, New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

Amazon has told the White House it is interested in buying TikTok ahead of a key deadline by which its parent company, China-based ByteDance, must either sell the popular social media app or face a ban in the U.

Saturday is meant to be the deadline for TikTok parent company Bytedance to sell the platform to a non-Chinese buyer or face its possible ban in the United States. According to a source familiar with the White House led discussions about a deal,

The three people familiar with the bid told the Times that Amazon’s bid is not being taken seriously. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on the report to HuffPost. With both parties citing national security concerns due to the app’s Chinese ownership,