The CEO of Activision Blizzard, until a few months ago, Bobby Kotick, will be the one who is interested to buy TikTok. This was reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing a source, google is known, by the initiative. Social networking seems to be back on the list and want to be entrepreneurs and companies in the united states, after the show, the rumors of the new, in which the united states would be ready (again) to force a sale of the company to the chinese ByteDance, which controls the platform, so as to avoid a ban as possible.
TikTok: Bobby Kotick, and Sam Altman, for the purchase?
In addition to Kotickut had a couple of partners. Among them, I will also include Sam Altman, co-founder and head of OpenAI. It has not leaked any information is accurate with respect to the size of the investment, the economics of doing to achieving the tightening of the hand, but about the hundreds of billions of dollars, a figure which is monstrous.
According to what has come out, it seems that the proposal has been submitted to the already-Zhang Yiming, the number one in the ByteDance. And, as usual, in such cases, they comment on the sources of the official.
For an operation of this kind, it may increase also the interest of OpenAI, and, above all, to have access to the data collected from TikTok to train the algorithms of artificial intelligence.
The future of the social network out-of-state and will be placed in the following days. Draft law on “the Protection of americans from the application of the controlled opposition of the stranger”, the result of the work dypartiake, and passed unanimously in the last days of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives provides for the sale of its it within 180 days. On the contrary, the ban will be put into operation in the territory. A liability is justified by the fact that the platform is controlled by a chinese company. - President Joe Biden has been in place for the signing of the law, in the event of a green light to the final of the Congress. The vote will be held on Wednesday 13 march.
In the United States alone, TikTok is about 150 million users (source Statista, the information is up-to-date in January 2024), nearly one-half of the total population.
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