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Microsoft confirms talks to buy TikTok operations in North America, Australia and NZ

2020-08-03 09:32:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Microsoft has confirmed it is in talk to acquire some TikTok operations from Chinese parent ByteDance. The move follows reports in the US government is looking to ban TikTok in the country on national security concerns, due to the company's potential ties to the Chinese government and consequences for US user data privacy. 

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