{"id":10756,"date":"2020-09-14T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:39:50","slug":"oracle-to-takeover-tiktok-operations-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/oracle-to-takeover-tiktok-operations-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle to takeover TikTok operations in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> this morning, Oracle stands to become TikTok&#8217;s &#8220;trusted tech partner&#8221; in the US, a day ahead of Trump&#8217;s imposed sale deadline.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The report comes just moments after Microsoft, the only other bidder for ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok operations, revealed they&#8217;d been unsuccessful in their proposal <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/microsoft-statement-on-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a blog on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok\u2019s US operations to Microsoft&#8221;<\/em> states Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation around why Microsoft&#8217;s proposal was rejected appears to revolve around t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/bytedance-wont-allow-tiktoks-algorithm-to-be-part-of-a-sale-report\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he reluctance of ByteDance to include the algorithm<\/a> behind TikTok as a part of the operational sale.<\/p>\n<p>Instead Oracle will need to develop their own and provide a US (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-support-2020-4?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and very, very Tump friendly<\/a>) home for the app&#8217;s trove of user data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reported by The Wall Street Journal this morning, Oracle stands to become TikTok&#8217;s &#8220;trusted tech partner&#8221; in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Oracle will run TikTok in the US?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[43,1489,1480],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10759,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/10759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}