On Friday, October 25, 2024, in Microsoft Store in New York, USA.
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US President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday Microsoft Talking about acquiring Tiktok, he hopes to see the bidding war on the application.
Microsoft refused to comment. Tiktok and Bytedance did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comments outside the conventional working hours.
Tiktok owns about 170 million U.S. users who have the law that the Chinese owner is bound to sell or facing a ban on the national security field or face the law on January 19.
After taking office on January 20, Trump signed an administrative order to delay for 75 days before executing the law.
Trump said last week that he was conducting talks with many people to buy TIKTOK, and it is likely to make a decision on the future of popular applications within 30 days.
President of the United States has previously stated that if it is Elon Musk Tesla CEO wants to do so. However, Musk did not publicly comment on Trump’s proposal.
Recently, a source told Reuters on Sunday that recently, the confusion of the AI ​​startup AI put forward a proposal to merge with Tiktok, and the US government will get half of the new company in the future.
The report on the report marks Microsoft for the second time to get Tiktok in the framework.
In his first term, Trump ordered Tiktok to separate its American version with the orcs on the grounds of national security issues.
Microsoft became a senior bidder in 2020, but the negotiations quickly collapsed. A few months later, Trump’s withdrawal was pushed to end when he took office.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the deal was “the strangest thing I have worked as”.
He said in 2021 that the US government had a special set of requirements and then it disappeared.
