Oracle wins TikTok bid prior to impending U.S ban
Oracle appears to be the victor in the bidding war for U.S. operations of TikTok, edging out Microsoft and Walmart just two days before an impending ban.
Oracle becomes TikTok's trusted tech partner
The United States government gave Chinese company ByteDance an ultimatum, sell its stateside operations to an American company or be banned on September 15. Multiple companies, including Apple, were in question for the purchase, but ultimately Oracle won out.
On Sunday night, The Wall Street Journal received a report that Oracle had closed the deal only moments after Microsoft announced it had been rejected. The deal does not seem to be an outright purchase of all assets and intellectual property, however. Reportedly, TikTok will consider Oracle a "trusted tech partner."
The sale of TikTok has seen a lot of drama over recent weeks, as TikTok and the U.S. government seemed unable to budge or compromise on negotiations. TikTok sued against the ban order in late August, but due to the time sensitive nature of the event, the action did nothing for their case.
Microsoft and Walmart were discussing a partnership to purchase the company as well. The purchase would have acted as direct competition to Instagram's own shopping network and ad placement.
Ultimately the final deal went to Oracle-- the company known for Java and cloud computing platforms. The details of the deal remain unknown until an official announcement is made by one of the companies.
Oracle becomes TikTok's trusted tech partner
The United States government gave Chinese company ByteDance an ultimatum, sell its stateside operations to an American company or be banned on September 15. Multiple companies, including Apple, were in question for the purchase, but ultimately Oracle won out.
On Sunday night, The Wall Street Journal received a report that Oracle had closed the deal only moments after Microsoft announced it had been rejected. The deal does not seem to be an outright purchase of all assets and intellectual property, however. Reportedly, TikTok will consider Oracle a "trusted tech partner."
The sale of TikTok has seen a lot of drama over recent weeks, as TikTok and the U.S. government seemed unable to budge or compromise on negotiations. TikTok sued against the ban order in late August, but due to the time sensitive nature of the event, the action did nothing for their case.
Microsoft and Walmart were discussing a partnership to purchase the company as well. The purchase would have acted as direct competition to Instagram's own shopping network and ad placement.
Ultimately the final deal went to Oracle-- the company known for Java and cloud computing platforms. The details of the deal remain unknown until an official announcement is made by one of the companies.
Comments
Oracle becomes a trusted partner and Oracle gets inroads into areas of Asia that it sees necessary to expand its Enterprise Services Hardware/Software solutions.
At least this is a guaranteed way to ensure TikTok will crash and burn.
Way to piss money down the toilet. This is more a waste of shareholder value than Microsoft buying Nokia.
I worked for an internet startup that was building a new credit card website.
There were three developers working on the actual site.
And nine DBAs working on the database.
Nine.
Something wasn't right.
The in-house joke was that three of them were working full-time on calculating the Oracle license fees.