170 million TikTok users in the U.S. might be up for sale. What are they worth?
(00:42) Matt Argersinger and Bill Mann discuss:
- The looming TikTok ban, why Apple and Google are the real gatekeepers, and what a standalone TikTok U.S. might look like.
- Apple’s other problem in China: smartphone sales and rising competition from Huawei and Vivo.
- Bank ea ... Show More
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The clock is ticking on social media giant TikTok, which faces a nationwide ban in the United States unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells it by January 19. Social media theorist Clay Shirky unpacks why the US is trying to ban TikTok, what it means for the app's users and c ... Show More
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On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok nationwide unless its Chinese owner, Bytedance, agrees to sell its stake.
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