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Zhang yiming the founder of bytedance the company that owns tiktok worked at microsoft though only for a few months before he.

Tiktok microsoft china bytedance zhang yimingtimes. Tiktok deal tests microsofts decades of china experience. 15 chinas company bytedance will not release its source code to any us. Bytedance the eight year old chinese social media giant behind tiktok is chinas first truly global internet success story. While the deadline granted by president donald trumps administration to sell tiktok expires on sept.

Bytedance is negotiating with a microsoft walmart coalition and a competing investor consortium led by software firm oracle on a sale of tiktok that could be worth as much as us30 billion. Would prefer to spin off video sharing app tiktok rather than sell it to microsoft corp the south china morning post reported on sunday citing a person familiar with the deal. China claims us abuses national security to ban its apps bytedance has informed us they will not sell tiktoks us operations to microsoft. Tiktok troubles narrow gap between beijing and bytedance founder zhang yiming the 38 year old zhang who has trodden a different path to other high profile chinese tech tycoons shifted tack in august when president donald trump threatened to ban tiktok in the united states unless it was sold to a us firm.

For bytedances founder zhang yiming the deal could determine whether his eight year old company becomes a globe straddling digital colossus or is reduced to a mere power player in china. China made its 11th hour entry into the tiktok process the last weekend of august just as bytedance had two offers in hand and planned to review them in hopes of making a final decision by the.