Almost blackmailed, that’s the truth TikTok managers are looking for a buyer in a hurry after Trump continued his crusade with it WeChat and TikTok as weapons against the Chinese regime.
The deadline equipo by the North American government is November 12, and under threat of ban or forced sale, the service developed by ByteDance already has the candy most coveted by the big American tech companieswith Microsoft, Oracle, and Twitter now also alphabet at the forefront of the negotiations.
he told us 9 to 5 googlesbe informed about it Google plus parent Alphabet has considered investing in TikTok as part of a broader group offering. which apparently would not have yielded any results, but the Mountain View giant’s interest in the popular network of Chinese origin did not wane.
According to the sources Alphabet’s iniciativa was to form a consortium investing in TikTok wherever they would have done it “Minority interest without voting rights” through one of its investment subsidiaries called CapitalGbut it seems that these efforts have not been taken into account by the other parties.
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However, CapitalG has invested in services like Lyft or Snap in the past the investment branches of the giant alphabet This includes Google plus Ventures and other companies that have committed to investing in them startups. Nevertheless It seems complicated that Google plus ends up buying TikTokbecause there are many obstacles in such an operation.
There was always talk that it should be a technology company that already exists outside of China because of the need to do so an organizational structure capable of handling operations at an international level both in the United States and Europe, and buyers need to form a team that cánido continue TikTok activities.
In addition, it should be remembered that this is mainly the case in Europe and also in the United States massive regulatory pressure to prevent monopolistic practices or anti-competitive, which would be difficult for Google plus to explain if accepted You already have a service like YouTube.
As if that wasn’t enough, we know that too YouTube developers themselves prepared a service afín to TikTok from the shadow of the vídeo giant i to compete with them streamAlthough we don’t know much about it yet.
Since then anyway Bloomberg confirm that “The Alphabet has not ruled out participation in future offerings”but taking into account TikTok is worth between $20,000 and $50,000 million It seems complicated that Google plus pays out such amounts… And won’t Fb be interested in TikTok too?
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