Trump approves of Oracle’s effort to buy TikTok
President Donald Trump voiced support on Tuesday for Oracle Corp. to buy the U.S. operations of TikTok, adding a fresh wrinkle to the bidding for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Oracle, a giant in business software, has had preliminary discussions about teaming with some of ByteDance’s existing minority investors to buy TikTok’s U.S. operations but it isn’t clear how advanced the talks are, said people familiar with the matter.
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