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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by someelephant on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:40PM (#24522150)
It's difficult to understand why Microsoft wouldn't buy this. With some clever marketing I'm sure they could grow the username rapidly and it would cost less than 1% of whatever TikTok would cost.
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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by DLay on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:56PM (#24523089)
Bytedance paid $1 billion in advertisements in 2018. Anyone remember how annoying and ubiquitous their ads were?

That was on top of purchasing Musically for $800m, partially for their existing U.S. user base.

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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by jonas21 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:14PM (#24522772)
Why? The hard part isn't building a Vine or TikTok clone. It's getting 800M people to come and use it.
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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by ffk on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:21PM (#24522433)
They tried, but apparently the sale was blocked due to AI export control laws in China.
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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by cercatrova on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:46PM (#24523006)
Really depends. They made and then shut down Mixer, their Twitch competitor, because no one was using it.
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Re:ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline l... by changoplatanero on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:48PM (#24522598)
i think he means why didn't they buy the rights to the name "vine"
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