President Trump tells reporters on Air Force One that Microsoft is the latest contender in the race to buy TikTok's US operations.

I would say, yes,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if the software giant was bidding to buy TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Costas Pitas;