Microsoft Renews Its Pursuit Of TikTok After Talking With Trump

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Microsoft renews its pursuit of TikTok after talking with Trump by abebrown716

Friday afternoon, and within hours after that, Trump seemed to indicate that a ban would come as quickly as Saturday. Trump and his officials have been weighing outright ban or possibly forcing TikTok’s Chinese owners to sell the social media, saying they fear that the Chinese company might be mishandling user data.

“Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns,” the blog post put out by Microsoft on Sunday reads. “It is committed to acquiring TikTok subject to a complete security review and providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury.”yesterday that it put on its platform and on Twitter. In it, TikTok’s Vanessa Pappas, the company’s U.S. general manager, cited TikTok’s 1,500 U.S.

TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has taken steps over the past year to distance itself from its Chinese parent company. It has repeatedly said it wouldn’t—and doesn’t—share data with the Chinese government, and in May,

 

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abebrown716 Tiktok will be like now : I'm a rider Provider tiktok_us

abebrown716 Microsoft wants to be the youthful company so badly, that they will buy this cancer. Our only hope is that they will mess things up

abebrown716 they want to create mega anti competitive corp It is a dog eats dog fight for social media GREED n over the top valuation

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abebrown716 How long will this app stay relevant?

abebrown716 Hope Microsoft don't get greedy and buy TikTok. China is not handing over 100% of TikTok, it is giving only US operation. China is going to use Microsoft brand as a weapon to attract more users in other countries.

abebrown716 Power move Trump! He will ban unless they sell to microsoft

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abebrown716 There's no wonder why hes trying to ban It he does business with force aka terrorism

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abebrown716 That is bad bad news!

abebrown716 Protect the safety of the world and the privacy of everyone, say no to TikTok, SayNoToChina

abebrown716 Let’s hope they didn’t cut him in on the deal.

abebrown716 the word of the day is: kickback

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