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Michelle taking a step back, the fact that tick tock is becoming so central to the future discussions between the two leaders of the United States and China. Does that surprise you at all. You know, it's a really interesting reflection of the importance of technology today when it comes to national security.It comes to economic prosperity. But when you talk about taking a step back, whether it's tick tock, whether it's export controls on semiconductor chips, whether it's tariffs, bans on tick tock, bans on ...

The TikTok application is seen on an iPhone 11 Pro max in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on September 30, 2020.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe latest developments in the TikTok saga mark another seismic shift in the app’s ownership and governance.Under a new proposed agreement, U.S. investors including Oracle, Silver Lake Partners and media moguls Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch would collectively own 80% of TikTok’s U.S. operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake of 20% or less. The Murdochs, ...

Under the terms of this deal, Tik Tok will be owned by a majority of American investors and controlled by a board of directors with extensive national security and cyber security credentials. In partnership with the US government, Oracle will serve as Tik Tok's trusted security provider and they will independently monitor the safety and data security of all US user data on Tik Tok's platform. Americans data will be stored uh securely in the United States without access from China. All US user data will be s ...

The US now nearing a deal with China over Tik Tok after months of negotiations. The president saying the Murdoch, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell are involved in that deal. Our Julia Borston has details in today's tech check.Morning, Julia. >> Good morning, Carl. Well, a deal for Tik Tok's future is starting to come together with President Trump expected to sign an executive order later this week.Then there'll be another 100 day period 120day period for the deal to close. Now central to this new deal existing i ...

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them. Joining us right now is Michelle Ga, former assistant secretary of state for global tech affairs uh in the first Trump administration, now CEO of CROC uh the Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. Good morning to you. Morning.Do we think that this is just a what he's talking about now is the board. Is that your understanding of of what we're talking about or we're talking about ownership stakes. Uh it sounds like the board.Um and I think big picture is all of the details of this deal are s ...

A White House official says that Oracle will recreate and provide the security for a new version of Tiktok's algorithm. Under the deal, owners of the US, these version of TikTok will lease a copy of the algorithm from Bytedance, and then Oracle is essentially going to serve as the gatekeeper here, continuously monitoring and operating that algorithm, the official said. The data will be kept in a secure cloud and that Bytedance will not have any access to US based users information on the platform.The algori ...

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Let's go more on the talks between China and the US and the future of Tik Tok and all sorts of other things. We're joined by CNBC contributor Dardrick McNeel who served in the Obama administration. He's now senior policy analyst at Long View Global.Uh Dardrick, great to see you. >> Um I want to Great to see you as well. >> I want to focus in on this Tik Tok deal.While we know very few details, um there's one detail that Aean did uh talk about just now and that is the idea of who controls the algorithm. Um, ...