TNB Tech Minute: New Details on the U.S.-China TikTok Deal
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:23.9 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, September 16th. I'm Julie Chang for the |
| 0:29.7 | Wall Street Journal. We've got new details on the U.S.-China TikTok deal. According to people |
| 0:35.7 | familiar with the matter, TikTok's U.S. business would be controlled |
| 0:39.3 | by an investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andresen Horwitz. The arrangement |
| 0:45.5 | would create a new U.S. entity to operate the app, with U.S. investors holding a roughly 80% |
| 0:51.7 | stake and Chinese shareholders owning the rest. |
| 0:54.9 | Sources say the new company would also have an American-dominated board with one member |
| 0:59.8 | designated by the U.S. government. |
| 1:02.2 | Existing users in the country would be asked to shift to a new app that TikTok has built |
| 1:06.5 | and is testing. |
| 1:07.6 | Both sides are still finalizing details of the proposed deal and terms could change. |
| 1:13.4 | Plus, Rivian broke ground today on a factory in Georgia. The new assembly plant will be the |
| 1:18.9 | electric vehicle maker's second and is set to begin production in 2028. It would support the |
| 1:24.1 | company's R2 sport utility vehicle and smaller R3 crossover model. |
| 1:28.5 | The factory represents a fundamental shift for the manufacturer of upscale pickups and |
| 1:33.9 | sport utility vehicles. |
| 1:35.6 | Rivians doubling down on EVs comes at a time when the rest of the U.S. auto industry |
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