While the US has been busy floating the media with an upcoming deal on TikTok, China has been rather quiet, notes adjunct professor at NYU School of Law Winston Ma, author of The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace on CNBC.Read More →
London-based branding expert Arnold Ma discusses what the Tiktok deal with Oracle and Walmart might mean for its users outside China, at the state broadcaster CGTN. Who is hosting the user data is the key question to ask, he says.Read More →
Harry Broadman might have earned his stripes in working in the US administration, the handling of the Tiktok deal filled him with “utter amazement”, he tells at Marketwatch. “Why issue the executive order if you are going to negotiate that way?” Broadman asks.Read More →
For a while, London was in the running to get the Tiktok international headquarters, but under the Tiktok-Oracle deal the UK’s capital seems to have lost that opportunity, says China internet watcher Matthew Brennan to CNBC. That seems another setback for the UK now the country is already suffering under the corona crisis and Brexit.Read More →
Did get Oracle the Tiktok deal because it cozied up to the US president more than any of the other US companies, wonders international trade expert Harry Broadman at CNBC. Many questions remain after Microsoft was replaced by Oracle.Read More →
Oracle has taken over Microsoft as the preferred buyer of Bytedance’s Tiktok in the US after the Chinese company got into problems with US President Donald Trump. Innovation expert Matthew Brennan says Oracle might be the better match as a buyer of Tiktok, he tells in Coinspeaker.Read More →