TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a U.S. appeals court for additional time to work out a potential divestiture of the popular video-sharing app, citing a lack of communication from the Trump administration with a Thursday deadline looming.
The petition, filed by ByteDance Ltd. late Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said the U.S. government’s decision to force a TikTok deal was “arbitrary and capricious” and denied the company due process under the law. The company said it had been in extensive…