San Francisco, Jan. 23 -- The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silver Lake, reports said on Thursday, capping off a years-long battle between the social media app and the two superpowers. The deal - outlined by the chief executive of TikTok parent ByteDance in an internal memo last month - is set to close this week, people familiar with the matter told the news website Semafor. TikTok chief executive Shou Chew said in December that ByteDance had signed a binding agreement with investors but that regulators hadn't yet indicated their approval and that "there was more work to be done". The deal closing suggests an end to an on-again, off-again battle, ...