TikTok's future in the United States still remains hazy with little time left before the deadline that US President Donald Trump set for the sale of the platform's US operations, after which the app could face a ban.

After Microsoft said that it was out of the race to buy TikTok, reports suggested that Oracle will become a business partner to TikTok, and could take a stake in the business, though the exact nature of the agreement remains unclear. Moreover, a Chinese state broadcaster has reported that Bytedance will not sell TikTok's US operations to Microsoft or Oracle. To discuss all this Startup Street spoke to Daniel Ives MD of Wedbush Securities and Apar Gupta of Internet Freedom Foundation.