WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so.

Tesla bull Ross Gerber doubts the effectiveness of Donald Trump's executive order to delay TikTok's federal ban, citing national security laws, as Elon Musk's X emerges as a contender for TikTok's U.S.

Americans are going to lose access to TikTok in less than a week, unless China green-lights a sale to what Congress has deemed a non-adversary of the United States — something China is unlikely to do but might.

I met with the owners of Tiktok, the big owners, it’s worthless if it doesn’t get a permit,” Trump said. “It’s worth like a trillion dollars.”

TikTok is currently appealing to the US Supreme Court to avoid a potential ban. The ban stems from national security concerns over TikTok's ties to China

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.

Tesla ( TSLA) stock popped more than 3% Tuesday on the heels of promising global electric vehicle sales data and media reports indicating Chinese authorities could allow the EV giant's CEO Elon Musk to buy the US operations of social media platform Tik Tok.

Tesla (TSLA) stock jumped 3% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a ...

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

One analyst thinks a deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations could come at a $40 billion to $50 billion price — but without the algorithm.

Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok. Donaldson has the most subscribers of any user on YouTube— over 340 million—and boasts over 113 million TikTok followers.

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,