Let’s be blunt. It makes no sense for Microsoft to buy TikTok. Even founder Bill Gates, who no longer has an active role, sees TikTok as a “poisoned chalice”. By Tim Culpan.
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Microsoft’s bid to carve out parts of TikTok from its Chinese owner ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavour that could test the patience of US President Donald Trump.
Twitter has expressed an interest in buying video platform TikTok’s US operations, it has been reported. The video-sharing app is already the subject of takeover discussions with Microsoft.
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The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from US digital networks and called TikTok and WeChat “significant threats”.
When US President Donald Trump declared TikTok a threat to American national security, there were more than a few people who thought, “What’s that?”
Microsoft has confirmed that its mobile streaming videogame service, Project xCloud, will officially be launched on 15 September.
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented demand that the US get a cut of the proceeds from the forced sale of TikTok is based on an interpretation of law that may be open to challenges.
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington’s move to push ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations, the China Daily newspaper said.
After finessing regulators and stroking egos to get this deal done, Microsoft will rightfully expect a big discount if it buys TikTok. The size of that discount will prove CEO Satya Nadella’s worth.