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President Trump said on Monday that Microsoft is one of the technology companies Tiktok in sight to keep the app in the United States in the middle of a Government ban on a download.
When asked if Microsoft was one of the conversation companies for the popular video sharing application, Trump told journalists: “I would say yes.”
He added that there was “much interest in Tiktok”, but did not expand to interested companies.
Microsoft adds to the growing list of companies that are reported in the mixture to acquire Tiktok, which could face another ban in the United States Less than three months If the Bytedance app based on China -based China does not deviate.
“I like to bid wars because you do my best. So if there is a tender war, that’s good,” said Trump on Monday.
Tiktok Closed briefly Early this month but He returned online In a few hours after Trump he assured that he would not apply the law that required the bytedance to be resigned from Tiktok on January 19 or would face a ban. He signed an executive order last day last week, which stopped the execution for 75 days.
Trump has said that an agreement is planned where the United States has a 50 percent participation in Tiktok, although it is unclear whether an acquisition of Microsoft or any other company would seem exactly the case.
Microsoft refused to comment.
Perplexity AI sent an updated proposal To merge with the social media platform earlier this week. The agreement would allow the United States Government to take a 50 percent participation in the new company formed after it is made public, A family source He told The Hill on Monday.
Trump has floated several buyers since taking office, including Oracle’s founder Larry Ellison and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, who has become a Trump’s close ally.
Frank McCourt, the former owner of Los Angeles Dodgers, and the investor “Shark tank”, Kevin O’Lery Official offer of the application shortly before the initial ban came into force, offering $ 20 billion in cash.
China has indicated a bigger opening To an agreement, to mark a change from when the Chinese government said that it would “firmly oppose” any forced sale of the platform.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week suggested that private companies can decide independently whether to sell their entities.
When asked if China is open to an agreement with Trump and how this may seem, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, according to the principles of the market. “”
