Amazon and Tiktok? Amazon has joined the growing list of companies interested in buying Tiktok before the proximity of the deadline for use of use: April 5. According to The New York Times the electronic commerce giant has presented “A last minute offer” To acquire the service and have contacted Vice President JD Vance and the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, to talk about the offer.
It is not clear why Amazon presents an offer now only two days after the deadline, although President Donald Trump said it would extend it if necessary. Jeff Bezos’ company would thus join a long list of companies and investment funds such as Oracle, Blackstone, Mrbeast or the Reddit co -founder, Alexis Ohanian. Elon Musk himself also rang and even Microsoft.
Amazon and Tiktok, follow the soap opera
This mobile app, which allows users to create short videos and share them to the world, became very little time a new social networks phenomenon. His success was as resounding as fast and increased exponentially in times of confinement by the Covid-19 pandemic. Today they use hundreds of millions of users worldwide, 170 million only in the US.
Tiktok is owned by the Chinese company Bytedonce and from there derive the problems. The US government accused them of “Connivance with the Chinese government and as a means to monitor and distribute propaganda.” The American Senate approved in April 2024 a law that forced Bytedance to uninverted in the application for reasons of “national security” and sell his US division to an American firm.
The Chinese company transferred the management of US user service data to Oracle servers in the US. and requested before the Supreme Court the annulment of this law. The deadline for the final opinion complied on January 19, one day before Donald Trump’s possession. Tiktok was inactive in the United States, leaving millions of users without access to application. Trump delayed his entry into force 75 days. This period of grace before blocking the use of the application is already about to expire the Saturday, April 5.
The Chinese Matrix Bytedonce does not want to sell, nor do it to third parties its algorithm of use and technologies behind Tiktok, but if the US maintains the prohibition, it would have no other option and, in addition, the measure could be extended to other countries where the Chinese application has also been questioned, the great phenomenon in social networks of recent years. ¿Amazan yok Tok? The continuous soap opera.
