Triller, an LA-based competitor to TikTok, is making a late entry in the race to acquire TikTok’s assets. The deal, which was reported by Bloomberg, is being financed by Centricus, a London-based private equity firm. It values TikTok’s assets at $20 billion and be paid $10 billion in cash and $10 billion in profit sharing. The deal is a longshot. Right now Oracle and Microsoft/Walmart are far...
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This is the month that net neutrality died. But maybe, if we strengthen other checks on the power of tech and telecom company executives, we don’t need to mourn its loss. I believe the inevitable outcome of the horrifying political violence on January 6 is that content noninterference will soon become a fringe position. With each new incident of violence, calls for deplatforming by...
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