TikTok could be sold off by Chinese owner to shield it from US ban

[I S I]

I have never watched the Star Wars films. And I will never use TikTok.

Wasn't this app made for useless people ?

This tells why it was no. 1 App in India.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

sounds to me like "forced tech transfer" that America has been accusing China of doing for years..

 

[obj 705A]

I think the name "Tik tok" should not be sold. Others are okey.

US market is highly politicalized now. Not a good place for Chinese companies anymore. Selling the business in US is not a bad idea. Jusk don't allow American company to steal the famous "tiktok" title.

I'm not sure I quite understand what you are saying, are you saying that it would be better not to sell the entire TikTok app and instead sell off their branch in just the US under a different name? That is not a good idea, if they do so then the American TikTok (even if they change the name) may grow more popular world wide than the Chinese TikTok and thus China would lose the only Chinese social media app that was successful outside of China, at that point don't be surprised if the American TikTok would operate worldwide and start promoting anti China content just like Twitter, Google etc..
The American market is not worth risking having another anti China social media app going global, now obviously Zhang Yiming probably doesn't give a flying F about China's security, he just wants to make some money, which is why the Chinese government should step in and prevent him from doing that.

 

[F-22Raptor]

US investors try to buy TikTok from Chinese owner

A group of US tech investors has launched an ambitious plan to buy TikTok from its Chinese owner, as the popular short video app tries to escape being banned by the White House.

The investors, led by the venture capital firms General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, are in discussions with the US Treasury and other regulators to see if spinning out TikTok and firewalling it from its Chinese parent would satisfy US concerns about the app, according to two people involved in the process.

Last weekend, President Donald Trump’s election campaign placed ads on Facebook suggesting that TikTok was “spying” on US users, a claim the company has denied. Other critics have noted the app’s huge influence as it sits on the mobile phones of tens of millions of Americans.

After the buyout, ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered company that currently owns TikTok as well as its mainland Chinese sister app, Douyin, would retain a minority stake in the international business, with non-voting shares, according to one of the people involved.

“This is the only viable plan,” the person said. The Information first reported some of the details of the buyout talks.

https://www.ft.com/content/2b79b921-0b8c-4230-8699-190a949f6418

 

[cloud4000]

Chinese complaints on the banning of their apps are falling on deaf years, especially in the US. No sympathy for them at all.

Wasn't this app made for useless people ?

When I first encountered TikTok it was used mainly by teenage girls. Now it seems to have spread to millennials, who have a lot of time on their hands. I'm trying to reduce my social media presence as it is, I don't need another one.

 

[bolo]

The embattled viral video app TikTok could be split off from its Chinese parent company and sold to investors in the United States in order to shield it from regulatory wrath, according to reports.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/07/21/tiktok-could-sold-chinese-owner-shield-us-ban/

Bro, you post alot of stuff but none has come into fruition. The world is not as simple as playing video games.

 

[kankan326]

I'm not sure I quite understand what you are saying, are you saying that it would be better not to sell the entire TikTok app and instead sell off their branch in just the US under a different name? That is not a good idea, if they do so then the American TikTok (even if they change the name) may grow more popular world wide than the Chinese TikTok and thus China would lose the only Chinese social media app that was successful outside of China, at that point don't be surprised if the American TikTok would operate worldwide and start promoting anti China content just like Twitter, Google etc..
The American market is not worth risking having another anti China social media app going global, now obviously Zhang Yiming probably doesn't give a flying F about China's security, he just wants to make some money, which is why the Chinese government should step in and prevent him from doing that.

If American apps can substitute tit tok so easily, they would have done it already. I think what ByteDance sells is its users and platform in US. Without ByteDance technical support, American version tik tok can not compete with real tik tok in other countries.

 

[Song Hong]

Yet another Alstom, TSMC and Samsung.

Old trick by Wall St, using national security or corruption..etc as pretext so that US capitals can control foreign technological jewels.

 

[alhindi]

Tik tok is highly popular. If American ban it, it will be American cutting off from the rest of the world.

Rest of the world is not china .

This tells why it was no. 1 App in India.

Yes that is true .

 

[jamahir]

This tells why it was no. 1 App in India.

Well, TikTok seems to be popular in Pakistan too. Just a few days ago the mullahs there spoke against "immorality" being spread through TikTok.

 

[I S I]

Well, TikTok seems to be popular in Pakistan too. Just a few days ago the mullahs there spoke against "immorality" being spread through TikTok.

OH the irony

 

[jamahir]

When I first encountered TikTok it was used mainly by teenage girls.

Yes, things like selfies and this TikTok seem to be done primarily be women, especially teenage ones.

Now it seems to have spread to millennials, who have a lot of time on their hands.

They make time for such things.

I'm trying to reduce my social media presence as it is, I don't need another one.

Well, for me PDF is enough.

OH the irony

Sorry what do you mean ?

 

[American Pakistani]

next time post after some research....

Let me slaughter your Bharti propaganda yet again.

wait for it....

dont rake up the "Many conservatives in Pakistan" tamasha... it wont go down well here.... plenty of things will be banned if these "Many conservatives in Pakistan" take over....

Now I have made you a tamasha after busting your Bharti propaganda naked.