Could TikTok Investors Be Mulling a US Buyout of Chinese App?

The logo of the social media video sharing app TikTok displayed on a tablet screen in Paris on Nov. 21, 2019. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images

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Investors in Chinese startup ByteDance Technology Co. are watching with increasing concern as countries around the world are closely scrutinizing the company’s popular social-video app TikTok because of security and intelligence concerns.