Microsoft now seeking whole Tiktok instead of US only

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Aug 6, 2020 37 Comments

One person close to ByteDance’s Asia-Pacific operations suggested that Microsoft had been attracted to the idea of buying all of TikTok’s global business by the difficulty of separating back-office functions such as HR and to ensure that TikTok users in one country could still use the app if they travelled to another.

https://www.ft.com/content/45d739f5-37cc-4957-874d-a310c2ac8e07

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  • New
    Pkptfd

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    Funny how they prefer to buy that shit than making something better. TikTok is an example of a bad use of the internet. It doesn’t make the world better
    Aug 6, 2020 15
    • Honey / Eng
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      It's a fad. I'm not buying a peripheral that I will use for one experience and never again. Sounds like an arcade, but VR arcades are disgusting concepts
      Aug 6, 2020
    • For your own sake, please research about spatial computing, we are very different from VR and gaming is not our priority at all. Real world apps will dominate AR space. This is data and content suspended in 3D space on top of real world unlike VR which is virtual immersive world
      Aug 6, 2020
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    TCmaxing

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    TCmaxing
    I dunno why this wasn’t thought of in the first place. How do you own US Tiktok while CCP still gives a bad rep to global Tiktok thus ruining the brand
    Aug 6, 2020 6
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    TCmaxing

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    TCmaxing
    India already banned it and now US. It’s all because of CCP’s reputation. Have they no shame? Why don’t they change their ways? You don’t see other communist countries like Vietnam acting so insecure about what people outside their country say about their government.
    Aug 6, 2020 3
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      TCmaxing

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      Trump gov doesn’t need to tell the world how insecure CCP is. They aren’t the one telling everyone NBA can’t have free hk on Jersey, Blizzard can’t allow contestants to support hk, forcing Zoom to suspend accounts that discuss things they don’t like, National Security laws that extend offshore to try to punish even non-Chinese citizens that insult their gov, etc etc.
      Aug 7, 2020
    • If you really think, how much different is that vs Trump banning WeChat? Remember things that you mentioned also come with the name to protect the nation and the people.

      “What they don’t like” is the part that you learned from news or your personal interpretations.
      Aug 7, 2020
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    Makes sense... just to MS tho 😂
    Aug 6, 2020 0
  • Wow, if this actually happened I would question if ccp actually is that powerful.
    Aug 6, 2020 0