Tim Stokely, the founder of the adult content social-media platform OnlyFans, and the crypto-focused Hbar Foundation submitted an eleventh-hour bid to purchase TikTok this week. The intent to bid was made by Zoop,

TikTok app will be banned and go dark in US unless ByteDance makes a deal. Tim Stokely, founder of OnlyFans and Amazon submit late bids. What to know

Zoop, a new company started by OnlyFans creator Tim Stokely, announced that it is partnering with the HBAR Foundation, which manages the treasury for the Hedera crypto network, to acquire TikTok formally. The offer was sent during the week to the White House, just before the divestiture deadline of April 5, as defined by U.S. law.

A startup run by Tim Stokely, founder of adult content social media site OnlyFans, has partnered with a cryptocurrency foundation to submit a late-stage plan to acquire TikTok.

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Marketing platform AppLovin said on Thursday it has submitted a bid for TikTok assets outside of China, ahead of the April 5 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to find a non-Chinese buyer for the short video app used by 170 million Americans.

TikTok’s future is in limbo as another deadline looms. For some users, nothing has been the same since those 14 hours in January anyway.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at the looming deadline — again — for a US ban-or-sale of TikTok.