Covert talks began weeks ago. After the software giant’s CEO and Trump spoke Sunday, Microsoft said an agreement could include the video app’s operations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Wasn’t there just a congressional hearing about this sort of thing?
Savage acquisition.
Good. CIA and NSA can spy on you again.😂
No, it can’t resolve. both forcing to selling TT or banning TT are not reasonable, unless evidences of data misusing are given.
Trump acting quicker against TikTok for the Tulsa flop then he has Putin for putting a bounty on our troops.
realDonaldTrump stevenmnuchin1 you’re FKG done. Microsoft
美国不要脸
Covert because of anti-trust laws? Can't hide everything behind national security.
Is there any solid evidence showing any data misuse?
What a shock. Bill Gates wants to meddle in the matter, siding, 'surprisingly', with China.
So Bill Gates can track Americans huh?
And they'll make money selling the data to China.
WSJ is not legitimate media. They (WSJ) R a tentacle of the Murdock disinformation machine. “The WSJ's Trump problem”-'Dozens have left paper in the past yr & interviews w/ current & ex-staffers show outrage over pressure from management 2 normalize Trump”
Does Bill Gates have a controlling voice in MS still or no?
The US government has blinders on when it comes to policy. An EU-styled GDPR law that protects users' privacy, requires domestic data storage and has strict requirements for data handling would both allow free market innovation while giving citizens control over their data.
Robbery.
It is just shameless robbery，the politicians threaten to ban you to kill you while the business man offer you a cheap deal to save you from death
Ugly politics.
Thats unfair to tiktok owner. Its illegal
its not a deal. Robbing
KassyDillon Just re-make the app WITHOUT spyware. No need to buy anything. Why does MS want to have stolen copies of passwords and credit card numbers anyway?
fuck
XcloudTimdog oh how I love the talking point how gold will make Microsoft lose out on 2 billion annually 😂 tiktok is 112 billion
Mooch1978 JayDubcity16 The_CrapGamer and gold will make Microsoft lose out on 2 billion? TikTok is valued at 112 billion
I'm OK with TikTok dying at the hands of Microsoft.
Microsoft software is cancer.
Microsoft to continue to do what they’ve always done—innovate. 🤣i mean buy competitors or companies who are actually innovating.
For fucking what? What reason do they need it for? I swear corporations get bored and lazy and just consume every other company under the sun.
How the rich stay rich! Dont tell me 45 and Gates aren't playing America. This is soooo calculated. You gonna railroad a company to sell technology to the USA? White collar GANGSTERS!!!
DDGaddis Microsoft sell US for Chinese Yen?
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And you thought China steals.
This was the plan all along
I wanted TikTok banned so badly
No one even discussed the topic of so-called American market freedom
Who cares. It’s for the best for American safety.
It will be a flame out... Another dud for MSFT....how quickly MSFT forgot about the $8B Nokia loss...
Banning an app not because it breaks a law, but because which country made it? If you insist Tiktok steals your data, prove it. I get sick with these lies, Huawei, Tiktok, or WMD in Iraq earlier. Even we step back, so Microsoft steals data is OK? It's a pure robbery!
So ridiculous. Why should the CEO even have to discuss thia with Trump. He injected himself in business deals where politics do not belong. Trump got played by teens on tiktok and banning Tik Tok is his retaliation.
For Xbox? May result a epic hack. Back doors. Assuming it isn’t for enterprise market 🤨
TIK-TOK has my daughter & friends in the kitchen lately like this.Todays leaders are ALLLLLLL about social media. No matter what everyday he finds something new to tweet about starting problems and causing chaos. When will enough be enough for this man
It's so funny that both Chinese and Americans are angry about the Tiktok ban and MS buyout. 😂😂So who is happy?
A smart move by Tik Tok to counter moves by trump using his power to perpetuate cancel culture Also notice they are starting with countries that have a risk at following the US in this political sabotage behaviour
Other companies will likely want a chance to bid on it if really up for sale.
As big tech gets bigger - Microsoft and facebook to become competitors.
Great. Now tik tok will just stop working and eventually go to a blue screen. What will all those dancing teenie boppers do
Gates in bed w China, like Microsoft buying this would make a difference 🙄
Bummer.
Disgusting! Is this the ‘free market’ propagandised by the U.S.? How dare the U.S. government accuses China’s trade policy when acting like a robbery themselves? Is this a kind of ‘America First’? I’m sick!
Why
TikTok tracks your search history, your keystrokes, your location - and shares it w/ china. Chinazi BoycottChineseProducts
Hong Konger don’t play this trash app
yashar Vine...Vine...Vine...
Really? Tik Tok is a national crisis. It’s a crisis that young teens are on that and addicted.
they would be giving billions to a Chinese billionaire
Is this legal?
Something stinks with this whole saga. Trump has no authority to ban the app. He can try but he will fail and the American tax payer will lose hundreds of millions in compensation and court costs. Is Trump trying to devalue it to allow American company to buy it? That’s illegal.
Why is only MSFT bidding? Where's Google, Apple, FB, Tw? There's also questions around US govt motive behind this anti-free market activity. The idea a Google or Apple app is a legit security threat is BS. If TikTok can grab user data, then so can any app.
Huge opportunity for Microsoft!
yashar Insider trading much?
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Big Tech is in with the CCP!!!
Smh
Does anyone really think that the Chinese government is going to let this happen?
Guessing $msft will be up 2% tomorrow.
Msft to the moon 🌙 ✨ stonks