U.S. gives ByteDance 90 days to sell its TikTok related assets in the states

Each day takes us closer to the mid-September deadline that thanks to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. Of course, should Microsoft or another American firm buy the short-form video app’s U.S. operations before time expires, the ban goes away. That’s because the idea isn’t to punish TikTok per se, but to force its China-based parent company ByteDance out of the United States. The fear is that TikTok collects personal data belonging to users, who largely are teens, and sends it to the proverbial server sitting on a desk in Beijing. However, TikTok says that the only servers …