Can Oracle save TikTok?

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The popular social media video app may be banned in the U.S. but will Oracle step in to save it? Recode’s Peter Kafka explains the possible deal and what it says about Trump’s negotiations with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Always read the label. Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to possibly ban
0:41.7	Tik-Toc, the social media video app.
0:45.0	Trump was citing national security concerns and said that if Tic-Toc didn't sell its
0:49.6	U.S operations to an American company by September 20th.
0:53.3	We may be banning Tik-Tok.
0:54.9	We may be doing some other things.
0:57.0	There are a couple of options.
0:58.6	But a lot of things are happening.
1:00.0	So we'll see what happens.
1:01.2	But we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to
1:05.4	Tik-top.
1:06.4	We're now just a few days away from that deadline and there's been a ton of activity over
1:09.9	the past week.
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