Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Tiktok, Says Us President Donald Trump

Us President Donald Trump Told Reporters on Monday That Microsoft is in Talks to Acquire Tiktok and that he would like to see a flock like a bidding war over the app.

Microsoft Declined to comment. Tiktok and Bytedance Did not immediately respond to reuters’ requests for a comment outstide regular business hours.

Tiktok, which has about 170 million American users, was briefly took offline just before a law requiring its chinese owner byenedance to eather sell ite Took Effect on January 19.

TrumpAfter taking office on January 20, Signed an executive Order seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of the law.

Trump said last week that he was in talks with multiple people over buying tiktok and would likely have a decision on the popular app’s future in 30 days.

The us president has previously said that he was open to billionaire Elon musk Buying the social media app if the tesla ceo wanted to do so. Musk, however, has not publicly commented on Trump’s offer.

More recently, AI Startup perplexity ai on Sunday made a proposal to merge with tiktok, with the us government getting getting up to half of the new company in future, a source told reuters on Sunday.

The Reported Talks Mark The Second Time that Microsoft has been in the frame to acquire tiktok.

DURING his first term, trump ordered tiktok to separate its version from bytedance citing national security concerns.

Microsoft emerged as a top bidder in 2020, but the talks song song collapsed, and trump’s divestment push ended a more months later when he left office.

Microsoft Ceo Satya Nadella Called That Deal The “Strangest Thing I’ve Ever Worked On.”

The US government had a “Particular set of requirements and then it just disapped,” He said in 2021.

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