Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary has come into the limelight once again intending to purchase the social media app, TikTok. The competition to acquire the app has taken an intriguing turn.

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.

Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok.

ByteDance (BDNCE) board member Bill Ford said the TikTok parent is exploring a deal to keep the short video app running in America without selling its operations there.

A representative for Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — says the YouTube star isn’t in the TikTok bidding race just yet ...

Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ...

Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary speaks to Bloomberg Television about his bid for TikTok, which he calls "an interesting ...

Kevin O’Leary says that he’s still interested in deal for TikTok, but that it’s no longer legally viable, even after Trump ...

The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.

TikTok is a huge part of American online culture, with millions of users consuming, posting and sharing content every day.