McCourt wants to build a decentralized version of the internet where individual users, rather than tech companies, own the reams of data spawned by their online lives.

MrBeast, one of most successful Internet creators, may join a bid by real estate mogul and Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt to buy TikTok's U.S. arm, McCourt told Axios' Sara Fischer in Davos Wednesday.

The billionaire declined to share details on his sources of financing, but said private equity firms and family offices have reached out.

ByteDance has repeatedly stated it has no desire to sell TikTok, yet O’Leary has been persistent in his campaign to buy the U.S. arm of the platform — even without the algorithm in place.

Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and other investors have submitted a bid to buy TikTok from China-based ByteDance after a court-ordered divestiture or shutdown.

Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary has all guns blazing in the bidding war for the potential sale of short video app, TikTok.

U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the ...

The clock is ticking down on TikTok's 75-day reprieve from divesting from its Chinese owners or being banned in the United States.

President Donald Trump is in the middle of a chaotic race to secure the future of TikTok in America. Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to Florida on Jan.

President Donald Trump told reporters Saturday, "Numerous people are talking to me, very substantial people, about buying" TikTok.

Frank McCourt, executive chairman of McCourt Global and founder of Project Liberty, discusses his latest bid to purchase TikTok as President Donald Trump gives the social media platform an extension from a ban.