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Wait, so I'm going to have to install the TikTok For Business with Sharepoint integration in my Teams? I guess anything makes sense to a company that paid $26 billion USD for LinkedIn.
Jokes aside, it probably would be a nice addition to their consumer-oriented portfolio (i.e. xbox, minecraft, etc), if they're planning to stay relevant in the FAANG-taking-over-the-world state of reality these days.
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> It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company Does anyone else remember when housing data in US severs was considered less private than alternatives? It’s incredible that Azure, and the rest of the us based cloud providers, have been able to rebrand American severs as the cloud so successfully that they are well known for being secure and safe.
Every major cloud vendor has zones outside the US. Just because you’re hosted on Azure doesn’t mean you’re hosted in the US or that US law applies to you.
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2018/04...
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Market cap is actually a quite precise estimation of what company offers to the world. Money is just information about usefulness. If you are useful to other people you've got money. If someone is useful to you, you give money.
Like Theranos?
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Market cap is actually a quite precise estimation of what company offers to the world. Money is just information about usefulness. If you are useful to other people you've got money. If someone is useful to you, you give money.
Exactly. Unfortunately we humans have a tendency to believe that we can understand what's useful for the rest of the people better than themselves.
To go back to the Microsoft case: They played the market well, that there are no alternatives in some areas and a new owner has hardly a chance to go there.
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I think its more of the rebranding from US-gov spying to Chinese-gov spying
Agree. I'm curious if it becoming a US-owned app means it would struggle in China.
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> America is a fundamentally revolutionary nation fighting for global democracy. I've studied the history of the US enough to know that this is brazen propaganda with no firm basis in reality. The US has no problem propping up brutal tyrants when it's convenient.
There are far more Democracies supported by the US in numerous ways in the post WWII period than totalitarians supported. This is fact.
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Jokes aside, it probably would be a nice addition to their consumer-oriented portfolio (i.e. xbox, minecraft, etc), if they're planning to stay relevant in the FAANG-taking-over-the-world state of reality these days.
Steve Jobs once said about Microsoft that their only problem is that they have no taste. And it's decisions like this that illustrate what he meant. TikTok is such a clash with everything Microsoft stands for as a company (if there is such a thing). It makes no sense.
This honestly would take the cake for for stupidest purchase ever. I couldn't think of a way to lose money faster. Maybe they should also purchase Snapchat too.
No comment on the potential TikTok acquisition by MSFT from me, but your quote reminds me of a lot of HN comments and opinions I heard elsewhere, but regarding Zuck and his WhatsApp and Instagram acquisition.
Everyone was pretty much clowning him as figuratively the dumbest man on earth who was simply lucky to make a ton of money off Facebook, who now was just throwing that money around at random acquisitions without having any idea what he was doing. A lot of people were also saying that it was all just out of desperation on his end, given that Facebook was going to die any moment soon. Six years later, most people agree that it was one of the smartest decisions he could've made.
In a similar vein, think back to when MSFT acquired Minecraft.
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Is there any precedence where the executive branch just ban a foreign company without citing the violation of law and going through court or WTO, in the last century?
Yep -> "That order marked the sixth time a U.S. president has either blocked a deal or ordered a corporate selloff since Congress authorized the power to intervene in 1988." WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-sign-order-demanding-c... I don't know the details of the others, but one that comes to mind (and maybe is mentioned in the article?) is the blocked acquisition of Qualcomm by Broadcom. -edit- The circu…
Did you check? https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds549_e...
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| give them a better foothold in Social Networking than Linked-in provides. So you're saying that GitHub isn't a social network for coding?
Github is not a social network, and is should never be one.
https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...
https://medium.com/glitch/github-glitch-and-the-future-of-so...