<p>Walmart on Friday denied a report from <em>ABC News</em> that it was considering joining a group of investors to buy short video app TikTok.</p><p>Earlier on Friday, <em>ABC News</em> reporter Selina Wang said in a post on X that the world's largest retailer was "actively considering" joining a group of investors to buy the short video app, citing sources close to the deal. Walmart's interest was triggered by Amazon's involvement, the post and a subsequent story on ABC's website said.</p><p>A Walmart spokesperson said the ABC story was incorrect and pointed out that the story had been taken down from the site.</p>.Trump extends TikTok sale deadline by 75 days, vows to work with China.<p>The link to the piece on the <em>ABC News</em> website now says "page unavailable." <em>ABC News</em> was not immediately available to comment.</p><p>Walmart had been previously linked to TikTok when it considered teaming up with Microsoft to buy the app in 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of the popular short video app to a non-Chinese buyer. </p>
<p>Walmart on Friday denied a report from <em>ABC News</em> that it was considering joining a group of investors to buy short video app TikTok.</p><p>Earlier on Friday, <em>ABC News</em> reporter Selina Wang said in a post on X that the world's largest retailer was "actively considering" joining a group of investors to buy the short video app, citing sources close to the deal. Walmart's interest was triggered by Amazon's involvement, the post and a subsequent story on ABC's website said.</p><p>A Walmart spokesperson said the ABC story was incorrect and pointed out that the story had been taken down from the site.</p>.Trump extends TikTok sale deadline by 75 days, vows to work with China.<p>The link to the piece on the <em>ABC News</em> website now says "page unavailable." <em>ABC News</em> was not immediately available to comment.</p><p>Walmart had been previously linked to TikTok when it considered teaming up with Microsoft to buy the app in 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of the popular short video app to a non-Chinese buyer. </p>