ProBeat: Microsoft wants TikTok for the same reason the U.S. fears China

August 9, 2020 Big Data VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Itࢀ™s been a month since U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration was considering banning TikTok. Plenty has happened since, but the situation really accelerated last weekend. In the span of a couple hours, we learned that President Trump was planning to sign an order directing Chinaࢀ™s ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok and that Microsoft and ByteDance had offered the White House a deal to keep TikTok in the U.S. Chaos ensued. Trump gave Microsoft…