| ▲ | etchalon 8 hours ago | |
There is no universe in which TikTok is only worth $14B. | ||
| ▲ | fidotron 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Indeed, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19B in 2014. TikTok have a much more valuable audience than WhatsApp had, and we've had significant inflation since. | ||
| ▲ | netdur 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I believe it was TikTok’s U.S. operations that were sold for $14B, The rest of the world is still under Chinese ownership... hmm, did I just say ‘the rest of the world is still under Chinese ownership’? | ||
| ▲ | fullshark 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
How about the universe where the us government threatens to shut it down unless you sell it to its cronies? | ||
| ▲ | tomComb 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
This is a reward to Oracle for their support of trump, with the condition that TikTok now support him too. | ||
| ▲ | plasticsoprano 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
There is when the $14B doesn't go to Bytedance. | ||
| ▲ | ta1243 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Nice website you have there, shame if something happened to it | ||
| ▲ | advisedwang 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
First of all it's just TikTok's US operations. Secondly, those US operations have the price significantly depressed by risk that TikTok gets shut down without a deal. So the "TikTok ban" effectively gave TikTok's US operations to US oligarchs for a steal. | ||