TikTok chooses Oracle over Microsoft in Trump-forced sales bid

Published September 14, 2020 12:37am ET



The company that owns TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app’s U.S. operations, according to a source familiar with the deal.

Microsoft announced Sunday that its bid to buy TikTok had been rejected, removing a leading suitor for the Chinese-owned app a week before President Trump promises to follow through with a plan to ban it in the United States.

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