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0 pointstoyg5y ago0 comments

TikTok is not an investment in tech, it’s an investment in relations with the US public sector. The fact that it comes with an actual company attached is almost irrelevant for Oracle.

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throw_m2393395y ago

MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already, they won the DOD JEDI contract. They didn't need to spend anything on TikTok.

TikTok is a fad, like Instagram and other social networks.

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colesantiago5y ago

Sure, but we are talking about Microsoft here.

You should look at the rumoured purchase price that Microsoft was willing to pay for TikTok.

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