Microsoft is in talks to buy US operations for Tik Tak, owned by Chinese company Byte Dance. In fact, many companies have expressed interest in buying the US operator of Tik Tak, but it is more likely that it will be bought by Microsoft.
But Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, likened the company’s potential tick-tock purchase to a cup of poison.
In a recent interview with Wired, Bill Gates made it clear that buying TickTock parts from Microsoft is not easy or simple.
“Who knows what will happen to this deal, but yes it is a poisonous cup,” he said.
“Becoming a big player in the social media business is not an easy game because Microsoft has to reach a new level of content scrutiny,” he said.
When asked if he was worried about Microsoft stepping into the social media market, he said it would be a good thing to make Facebook more competitive, but not from Donald Trump. It’s too ridiculous to beat his only rival.
It seems that Bill Gates, like everyone else, is confused about the possible purchase of TuckTalk. It will be submitted, which is strange, of course, but Microsoft will have to deal with it all.
Bill Gates’ statement came after Microsoft confirmed that it was making progress on a deal to buy TuckTock’s operations in the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
There have also been reports that Microsoft is in fact considering buying all of TikTak’s global operations, and talks are in the early stages.
Microsoft is in talks with Bite Dance and the US administration to buy TickTalk, and it wants to complete the process within a 45-day period given by President Donald Trump.
On August 6, Donald Trump issued a separate executive order regarding future sanctions on Tik Tak and the same day on VChat, against which Tik Tak warned of legal action.
The presidential decree on tick-tock issued by the US president said that if Chinese applications were not sold to any US company in the next 45 days, they would be banned in the US.
A later report claimed that Apple was one of several companies interested in buying a popular social media app, such as Tik Tak.
On the other hand, Twitter has also expressed interest in buying the US operations of the Chinese company Talk Talk.
According to a Reuters report, talks between Twitter and TikTak are in the early stages and Microsoft is currently in the lead.
Interestingly, the market value of Twitter is close to 30 30 billion, almost the same as the US operations of Tik Tak, and according to sources, Twitter will have to increase its value in order to make this deal