Microsoft has emerged as a potential buyer of TikTok. The news, first reported by the New York Times, comes a few hours after reports first surfaced that the Trump administration was planning to order ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations. A sale would satisfy the demands of that order. But as we’ve previously reported, simply splitting off TikTok from ByteDance isn’t easily done, with the...
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