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Re:House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure by trevoragilbert on Saturday April 20, 2024 @02:20PM (#40099537)
Why would it be to a conglomerate? It’s more likely that existing US investors raise extra money to just buy it and run it locally. Existing antitrust environment would make it extremely unlikely an existing consumer tech co will be allowed to buy it and non-consumer wouldn’t make sense.
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Re:House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure by bdcravens on Saturday April 20, 2024 @02:31PM (#40099649)
No reason, other than the price (likely around $100B, more than twice the price Elon paid for Twitter, or roughly the market cap of Starbucks)
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Re:House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure by trevoragilbert on Saturday April 20, 2024 @03:58PM (#40100502)
Far less if the personalization and recommendation system isn’t included.
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