{"id":12810,"date":"2021-09-28T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:52:10","slug":"microsoft-ceo-says-failed-tiktok-deal-was-baffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-ceo-says-failed-tiktok-deal-was-baffling\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Says Failed TikTok Deal Was Baffling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s failed deal with the social media app TikTok last year was the &#8220;strangest thing I&#8217;ve ever worked on,&#8221; CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft had started talks on the proposed acquisition in August 2020, but the transaction collapsed in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TikTok was ordered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump to separate its U.S. version from its Chinese parent, ByteDance, because of national security concerns about the collection of U.S. users&#8217; data. Trump&#8217;s divestment efforts ended with his presidential term in January, and no potential suitor has pushed to acquire TikTok since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the Code Conference in California, Nadella said he wanted to bring Microsoft&#8217;s security, child safety and cloud expertise to TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Nadella, what attracted ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming to Microsoft was the tech giant&#8217;s services, which focused on moderating content and keeping children safe, and were developed through products like Xbox video game tools and the social network LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/microsoft-ceo-says-failed-tiktok-deal-strangest-thing-ive-worked-on-2021-09-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s failed deal with the social media app TikTok last year was the &#8220;strangest thing I&#8217;ve ever worked on,&#8221; CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12885,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}