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... very interesting, it seems that the resuscitated TikTok had a change of heart, literally, meaning the algorithm has been swapped out, from the superior to the inferior, readying for trade sale or IPO, to be in compliance to the rule of 2020 sovereign law that says the algorithm must not be sold out of China domain
English language revelations starts 5:45 mark, and revelations chime with the Bloomberg story appended below the vlog
ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, will not sell or transfer the algorithm behindthe popular video-sharing appin any sale or divestment deal, according to a source briefed on the Chinese company’s boardroom discussions.
President Donald Trump said he would be open to billionaire supporter Elon Musk or Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison purchasing social video app TikTok as part of a joint venture with the US government.
“I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday. “So what I’m thinking about saying to somebody is buy it and give half to the United States of America, half, and we’ll give you the permit, and they’ll have a great partner.”
Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 21.Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg
ByteDance Ltd. has publicly refused to sell TikTok, though prospective buyers hope the Supreme Court’s ruling and the brief TikTok shutdown could push it to reconsider.
“You have an asset that has no value or has a trillion dollar value,” Trump said. “It all depends on whether or not the United States gives the permit.”
That prospect has potential bidders lining up. A group of American investors assembled by tech entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley that included MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator, announced a bid earlier Tuesday.
Billionaire Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary made a formal offer to buy TikTok earlier this month. O’Leary has already met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the bid, and McCourt has made clear he’d be happy to buy TikTok without the service’s coveted content algorithm, which ByteDance and China’s government have said is not for sale.
Amazon.com Inc. and Oracle, both of which already do business with TikTok, have also been floated as possible suitors. After assurances from Trump that he wouldn’t enforce the law, Oracle notably helped restore TikTok’s app on Sunday after a roughly 14-hour US shutdown even though it could face fines for doing so.
Ellison was at the White House on Tuesday to announce a new joint artificial intelligence venture alongside Softbank Group Corp. and OpenAI LLC.
At the end of his remarks, Trump suggested he might download TikTok on his phone.
“I think I might put it there. I think I’ll get it right now. By the way, again we won the young vote. I think I won it through Tiktok, so I have a warm spot in my heart for Tiktok,” he said.
