Microsoft Weighs Buying TikTok’s U.K. Services Too, Fox Reports

Microsoft Corp. is interested in buying the popular music video app TikTok’s U.K. operations, expanding beyond the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand units that are already under discussion, Fox Business Network reported, citing a banker it didn’t identify.

It’s unclear whether TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. wants to sell the U.K. unit and if a formal offer for U.K. unit will be made, the banker with knowledge of the deal told the network.

The U.K. government said in early August that it has no plans to block the ByteDance platform in the country. TikTok is sitting on a plan ...