TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google

Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by baskire on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:33PM (#23838223)

Makes sense. It ensures google faces repercussions from removing tiktok from the Android play store.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by rafiki6 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:57PM (#23840360)

It's a lot of money, but doesn't overall hurt the viability of GCP. That business is growing like crazy with or without Chinese companies.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by badrequest on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:19PM (#23839300)

This deal is from May 2019, well before anybody was talking about banning TikTok.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by kutorio on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:22PM (#23839324)

It's not hard to imagine them planning ahead. In fact you can argue that the parent company ByteDance has planned for such existential risk by setting up TikTok as a separate entity from Douyin.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by justicezyx on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:02PM (#23839647)

That of course was the case. Mega corporations are as powerful as small sovereign nations, they have to behave like one...

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by afrojack123 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:49PM (#23839539)

Yep. They did the same thing to Amazon. Say the delete Tiktok email was sent in error or else risk losing our business.

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