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Twitter has held preliminary talks about a potential combination with video-sharing app TikTok, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources.

Short video app TikTok has recently launched its first TV app on Amazon Fire TV devices called "More on TikTok".

In response to the US government's latest executive order, Beijing-based TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, today released a statement saying that it will take to US court if the US government fails to treat TikTok fairly.

Facebook launched its short-video app Instagram Reels in the US and more than 50 other countries on Wednesday, aiming to challenge rival TikTok.

TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, generated more than $102 million in global App Store and Google Play revenue in July, 8.6 times that of the same period of last year, according to a report released today by mobile app analytics platform Sensor Tower.

Apple may also be interested in entering the social media space, and has "expressed an interest" in purchasing TikTok, according to a report by Axios on Tuesday.

Following up on an all-staff letter released yesterday, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming wrote a new letter to his Chinese employees on August 4.

Short-video mobile app TikTok owner ByteDance said today it is indeed exploring the possibility of setting up a TikTok headquarters outside the United States.

In a recent internal letter, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming expressed his thoughts about the pontential sale of the company trendy short video sharing platform TikTok.

Microsoft confirmed on Sunday that it has held talks with ByteDance to acquire its video-sharing app TikTok in the US and it intends to conclude the talks by September 15.