{"id":2174,"date":"2026-01-23T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-tiktok-deal-is-done-finally\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:01:16","slug":"the-tiktok-deal-is-done-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-tiktok-deal-is-done-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"The TikTok deal is done, finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/STK051_TIKTOKBAN2_CVirginia_A.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/announcement-from-the-new-tiktok-usds-joint-venture-llc?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC<\/a>. With approval from both the US and China closing on the schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/847858\/tiktok-sale-deal-memo-january-close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laid out in December<\/a>, ByteDance&rsquo;s ownership of the new joint venture is now only 19.9 percent to satisfy the terms of the divest-or-ban law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/24\/24139036\/biden-signs-tiktok-ban-bill-divest-foreign-aid-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed in 2024 by President Biden<\/a>. The other 80.1 percent is owned by investment firm Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX &#8211; the three \u00ab\u00a0managing investors\u00a0\u00bb that now hold 15 percent stakes &#8211; and several other smaller investors, like Michael Dell&rsquo;s family investment firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/announcement-from-the-new-tiktok-usds-joint-venture-llc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press releas \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/866437\/tiktok-usds-bytedance-sale-oracle-mgx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}