Amazon makes an offer of Tiktok – Liberation
TIC TAC … Approaching a decisive deadline this weekend, Amazon submitted an offer to take over Tiktok to the government of Donald Trump, who is looking for a favorable outcome in the file, reported this Wednesday, April 2 New York Times. The group of Jeff Bezos sent a letter to the American vice-president, JD Vance, as well as to the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Libenickseveral sources said on a daily basis.
Donald Trump posed as an intermediary of the sale of the application, claiming Sunday that« There would be an agreement » Before the deadline of April 5, set at the parent company Bytedance to give in its subsidiary Tiktok to non -Chinese investors. According to several media, the president was to meet members of his cabinet this Wednesday to discuss the social network at 170 million users in the United States. THE New York Times Stresses that many of its sources have not taken Amazon’s offer seriously.
A resumption of Tiktok by Amazon would undoubtedly be scrutinized closely by the Competition Authority, the FTC, as well as eventually by the Ministry of Justice, to ensure that consumers are not injured by this union. Solicited by AFP, Amazon did not follow up immediately.
The Tiktok file comes alive as the deadline set by A law passed in the congress in 2024which aims to avoid any risk of exploitation, by the Chinese authorities, of personal data of American users or any attempt to manipulate opinion in the United States. The deadline had initially been set for January 20, but Donald Trump pushed her by 75 days As soon as it takes office.
To date, Bytedance has still not officially accepted the principle of a transferany more than the Chinese government but, according to several American media, discussions are underway, with as a central scenario The split of Tiktok of his parent company. As part of this operation, the shareholders of Bytedance, 60% controlled by foreign investors, would then be entrusted with actions of this new entity up to their current participation in the Chinese giant.
Some newcomers could acquire a minority participation on this occasion. A name insistently circulates, that of the Oracle IT specialist, a direct competitor of Amazon on the cloud, which hosts tiktok servers in the United States.
