The company Microsoft Corp. I would be in conversations to acquire the American business of Tiktok, owned by the firm Bytedance Ltd. said the president of USA Donald Trump Monday night: “There is a lot of interest in Tiktok,” he said.
The application of short videos, used by more than 170 million Americans, aroused interest from many corners of the US technology industry. The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity He presented an offer to merge with Tiktok USA, while billionaire Frank McCourt, an expropientary of Los Angeles Dodgers, made a formal offer this month to buy Tiktok.
An antecedent for Microsoft: year 2020
Microsoft and Oracle Corp. were in the race to acquire Tiktok in 2020, When Trump first pressed Bytedance to sell his operations in the US or will face a ban. Trump went on Monday morning in Florida to a meeting of Republican legislators and referred to the ongoing conversations about Tiktok’s future.
After having been in favor of prohibiting the application for national security reasons, he changed his mind due to the success of the pro-trump content among its users.
“We are going to have many people by bidding for her And if we can save all that voice and all jobs, we do not want China to get involved, but we’ll see what happens, ”he said in his speech, referring to the application to share videos.
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“We are going to have many people by bidding for her and if we can save all that voice,” Trump said.
Trump granted Bytedance a 75 -day postponement of a law that stipulates that it must sell its operations in the US to a national companyand now he is encouraging more bidders to participate. “I like offers wars because the best treatment is achieved. So if there is a war of offers, it is a good thing”Trump said.
Goal, X and Tiktok will undergo European Union tests before the German elections
The European Commission will perform a test series this week to the big platforms of social networksin order to verify if they took sufficient actions to face the disinformation Just days after German elections Next month, as Friday an EU spokesman announced.
Within the big platforms that will participate in the test the January 31they meet Microsoft, Tiktok, LinkedIn, Google, Goal and Xwhich will check if they have enough safeguards to moderate the risks on their platforms.
“The resistance test It consists of analyzing possible scenarios in which the DSA and check with the platforms how They would react Given these specific scenarios, “announced the community spokesman for technological sovereignty, Thomas Regnierin a press conference.
Source: Ambito