The ban will harm the company irreversibly by first stagnating and then declining its user base
The retailer could, for example, embed advertisements in the user-generated videos with links to the Walmart website or siphon data from the site's tens of millions of users
The quick shift in sentiment shows the complications of concluding an agreement that is about much more than finding a proper valuation for an addictive video app
The first details that surfaced from TikTok's planned deal with Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. would put most of the company in American hands
The Beijing-based firm submitted the application to Beijing's municipal commerce bureau and is awaiting a decision
A federal judge in San Francisco on Saturday issued a preliminary injunction blocking a similar Commerce Department order from taking effect on Sunday on Tencent Holdings' WeChat app
A key reason for the discrepancy lies in differing views over the eventual distribution of TikTok's shares
ByteDance and Oracle issued conflicting statements on Monday over the terms of an agreement they reached with the White House over the weekend to allow TikTok to continue
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remains confident that Trump will sign off on the transaction, but US national security officials continue to raise concerns
TikTok to give $5 billion to fund the education of American youths; ban delayed till September 27
ByteDance was racing to avoid a crackdown on TikTok after the US Commerce Department said on Friday it would block new downloads and updates to the app come Sunday
Oracle and Walmart have rights to buy 12.5% and 7.5% respectively of a newly established TikTok Global under an agreement that won the approval of President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump said he had approved a deal, which included a $5 billion education fund, to allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States
Oracle and Walmart together could end up with as much as 20% of the entity, purchased in a round of financing that would precede an initial public offering
US Commerce Department announced a one-week delay until Sept. 27 in an order issued Friday that was set to require Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove the TikTok app for download
ByteDance plans to launch TikTok IPO in US and accept new Treasury terms
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said recently that he felt a TikTok ban would set a "bad long-term precedent" for the tech industry
ByteDance is racing to clinch an agreement with the White House that will stave off a U.S. ban on TikTok that President Donald Trump has threatened could happen as early as next week
TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. and Oracle submitted these details in their proposal to the Trump administration with a goal of averting an outright sale of the app or a shutdown of its US operations
Trump had previously threatened to ban the app unless its US operations were sold to a US company and the US government received a share of the proceeds