Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to find new ownership that satisfies the government by 75 days, to early April from January 19. Microsoft declined to comment.

The TikTok ban was supposed to be a critical national security response to the threat posed by the Chinese government and its control over an app with 170 million users in our country. Shortly before the law went into effect,

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Costas Pitas;