Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two to teach fellow tech titans, in particular his friend Elon Musk, about staying power.

Other potential buyers include the philanthropist Frank Mccourt ’s Project Liberty, which is raising capital to make a bid for TikTok in order to “rearchitect the platform” and protect user data. McCourt is a billionaire who previously owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The project is supported by the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.

Owing to US tech stocks crash, billionaires like Nvidias Jensen Huang and Oracles Larry Ellison lost more than $20 billion wealth in a single-day. Popularity of DeepSeek resulted in a frenzy selling in US tech stocks,

President Donald Trump unveiled this program in collaboration with key figures from the tech industry, including SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison

At a press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump suggested that he’s open to the idea of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok.

Social media influencer MrBeast says he'd buy TikTok to keep it from being banned. Elon Musk reportedly is interested in buying the app as well.

At the launch of Stargate Project, Oracle's Ellison said that AI could assist in identifying the cancer fragments early through a simple blood test, followed by gene sequencing of the tumour

Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, emerged as a potential buyer ... he’s also open to another tech giant to acquire TikTok: Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. Ellison was present at the White ...

Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle joined Trump for the $500 billion announcement.

At a press briefing on Tuesday, President Trump suggested that he's open to the idea of Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison buying ... who is also CEO of SpaceX and owner of ...

President Donald Trump had recently expressed his support in SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok.

WASHINGTON, January 28. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump said Microsoft is interested in buying TikTok from Chinese company ByteDance. "I would say yes," Trump said, adding that there is "great interest in TikTok" from several companies. He did not disclose the names of other American companies interested in acquiring the service.