Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls Trump-driven Tiktok deal ‘strangest thing’ he’s ever worked on
KEY POINTS
- Microsoft’s failed attempt to take over TikTok’s U.S. assets last year was “the strangest thing I’ve ever sort of worked on,” CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday.
- In August 2020, TikTok was in talks to sell its U.S. operations because the Trump administration threatened to ban the app unless parent company ByteDance found a U.S. buyer for it.
- President Joe Biden signed an executive order in June revoking the Trump administration order to ban the app.
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