General Atlantic CEO and ByteDance board member Bill Ford said Wednesday that he believes TikTok soon will reach a deal to remain in the U.S.  “It’s in everybody’s interest,” Ford said

TikTok is considering alternative solutions to selling its US business, as owner ByteDance continues the fight to keep its 170 million American users after a reprieve from the Trump administration, a board member of ByteDance was quoted by Chinese magazine Caixin as saying.

A ByteDance board member said the company seeks to find an alternative to selling TikTok US while allaying national security concerns.

A board member at TikTok’s parent company said that a deal to save the app from disappearing in the United States will be done soon.

BYTEDANCE is exploring a deal to keep TikTok running in the US without selling its operations there, according to board member Bill Ford. Read more at The Business Times.

A deal will get done to ensure that TikTok remains available in the U.S., General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford told Axios during an event on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland. Why it matters: General Atlantic is a major investor in TikTok's Chinese parent company,

As the U.S. government recognizes China's ByteDance's video platform TikTok as a national security threat and moves to ban its use, TikTok creators hold a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington,