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Microsoft rejected, Oracle wins bid for TikTok’s US operations
New York Post ^ | 13 September, 2020 | Kenneth Garger

Posted on 01/08/2021 5:48:59 PM PST by amorphous

Microsoft’s bid to purchase TikTok’s US operations was rejected, the company announced Sunday, with Oracle reportedly winning the bid to help run the popular social media app in the states.

The deal between Tiktok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance and Oracle is not believed to be structured as an outright sale, a source told The Wall Street Journal.

Instead, the software giant is set to be the app’s “trusted tech partner,” in the US, the report said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Technical
KEYWORDS: oracle; reference; tiktok; twitter
Anyone use TicTok? Or know if the President us it?

Seems to becoming VERY popular.

1 posted on 01/08/2021 5:48:59 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Seems still Communist Chinese-owned and operated, regardless of trusted tech partners in the US


2 posted on 01/08/2021 6:05:52 PM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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Not blocking posts or videos, at least.


3 posted on 01/08/2021 6:08:50 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

I use it and it is far better than facebook, twitter or even you tube.

The Youth including millenials, genx, geny etc have abandoned facebook in drove.


4 posted on 01/08/2021 6:20:40 PM PST by GregH
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I’ve never used it, but my wife is hooked. She always showing me videos youtuber would have long blocked.


5 posted on 01/08/2021 6:39:14 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

It’s China malware. If politics ever get on it, I’ll be shocked.


6 posted on 01/09/2021 6:43:49 AM PST by Shadylake
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