Walmart may team up with Microsoft in bid for US arm of TikTok

Walmart and Microsoft may make a joint bid for TikTok (Anjum Naveed/AP)

Walmart has said it may join Microsoft to buy the US arm of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that has come under fire from the Trump administration.

TikTok, through its fun, goofy videos, has gained hundreds of millions of users globally.