When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its ...

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.

Aiming for brands that are still affordable but had their hay-day a decade or so ago (think Jane Norman, Karen Millen) means ...