US EditionWhy China’s ByteDance Could Be a Big Winner in Its TikTok Deal with Trump
TikTok USDS will host U.S. user data on Oracle servers with safeguards for algorithms and content moderation to comply with national security demands, avoiding a ban.
- On Friday, ByteDance announced formation of TikTok USDS to host U.S. user data on Oracle servers, route U.S. traffic to Oracle Cloud, and operate under safeguards for data and content.
- Faced with the divest-or-ban statute, ByteDance Ltd. failed to reach a sale before the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the law on January 17, 2025, and briefly took TikTok offline after the Sunday, January 19 deadline.
- Adam Presser will lead TikTok USDS as CEO with a seven-member, majority-American board including Shou Chew, TikTok CEO; ByteDance Ltd. holds 19.9%, while Silver Lake, Oracle, and MGX Fund Management each own 15%.
- The deal preserves TikTok’s U.S. operations and keeps the platform available to U.S. users, ending a long legal battle that involved a $14 billion valuation reported by some sources.
- TikTok USDS now faces immediate scrutiny after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his office confirmed suppressed content critical of President Trump and ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate.
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TikTok may have found a way to stay online in the US. The company announced late last week that it has set up a joint venture backed largely by US investors. TikTok announced TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on Friday in a deal valued at about $14 billion, allowing it to continue operating in the country. This is the culmination of a long-running fight between TikTok and US authorities. In 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United Sta…
The Waste Paper – Your Daily Media Update: What Does the Acquisition of the Us-American Tiktok Mean?
With the sale of company shares, Tiktok and its Chinese parent company Bytedance rescue the social media platform from the ban. Tiktok thus becomes more than 80 percent American-owned.
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