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An investor group headlined by Larry Ellison’s Oracle, the private equity Silver Lake and Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm will hold a controlling stake in TikTok’s new U.S. business (imageio.forbes.com)
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[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Im genuinely shocked TikTok sold, I am also deeply disapointed that bytedance caved.

Also how did this get approved by the PRC, dont they have a law aganst exporting the algorithm?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My understanding is that this is just the operation in US, not TikTok globally.