The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN and a piece of TikTok.

He may be 81-years old, but Oracle chairman and mega-billionaire Larry Ellison, a database technology pioneer and a mainstay of Silicon Valley for five decades, is at the peak of his influence, wealth and political power.

More than five years after President Donald Trump first signed an executive order on "the threat posed by TikTok," he is set to sign another to announce a deal that would give control of the app's United States operations to a group of investors. Trump is set to sign the executive order on Thursday, September 25.

The president signed an executive order on Thursday that paves the way for the popular Chinese app to be owned by American investors

"If I could make it 100% MAGA, I would," Trump said, after signing an executive order setting up the deal with China and Trump allies

Larry Ellison seems to have hijacked every power lane in America (tech, politics, and Hollywood) all at once. The 81-year-old billionaire, Oracle’s co-founder

Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch are both part of the proposed TikTok deal, Donald Trump said Sunday. The president also named Larry Ellison and Michael Dell as part of the arrangement while speaking on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing.

Years of uncertainty around a possible TikTok ban in the United States may finally be coming to an end. The Trump administration is reportedly very close to finalizing a deal with China to transfer US operations of the app to American control.