TikTok Business in the US Contact “Don't Sell to Microsoft” September 14, 8:59
Microsoft, a major IT company in the United States, was aiming to acquire the US business of the world-famous video sharing application "TikTok", but on the 13th, it was informed that it would not be sold to Microsoft from ByteDance in China, which operates the application. I announced that there was.
Regarding TikTok, US President Trump has issued an executive order banning transactions with ByteDance from the end of this month, saying that personal information of users may be misused by the Chinese government and threaten security, and business in the United States I was ordering ByteDance to sell.
Meanwhile, last month, the Chinese government announced tightening regulations on overseas transfers targeting cutting-edge technologies such as AI = artificial intelligence, which is also used in TikTok, and the future of acquisition negotiations by Microsoft was unclear.