{"id":16003,"date":"2020-08-04T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16003"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:51:40","slug":"trump-sets-sept-15-deadline-for-us-firms-to-buy-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16003","title":{"rendered":"Trump sets Sept 15 deadline for US firms to buy TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump gave prospective buyers of Chinese-owned video app TikTok&#8217;s US operations until Sept. 15 to forge a deal, threatening to otherwise ban the video app in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will close down on Sept. 15 unless Microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it, and work out an appropriate deal,&#8221; Trump told reporters in the Cabinet Room as he met with US tech workers. &#8220;Here&#8217;s the deal: I don&#8217;t mind whether its Microsoft or somebody else, a big company, a secure company, very American company buy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously threatened to shut down the short-form mobile video app, owned by Beijing-based tech company ByteDance, over concerns that it could serve as a trojan horse that would expose American user data to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft on Sunday announced it is resuming negotiations to acquire TikTok after the US company&#8217;s CEO Satya Nadella spoke with Trump, saying in a statement that it &#8220;fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President\u2019s concerns,&#8221; and would acquire the company pending a &#8220;complete security review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would &#8220;move quickly to pursue discussions&#8221; with ByteDance, and would complete them no later than Sept. 15, while remaining in dialogue with Trump about the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is seeking to buy TikTok&#8217;s operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and wants to own and operate the app in those markets.<\/p>\n<p>It vowed to &#8220;ensure that all private data of TikTok\u2019s American users is transferred to and remains in the United States,&#8221; and data that is currently stored on servers outside the US would be deleted after being transferred from foreign-based servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON President Donald Trump gave prospective buyers of Chinese-owned video app TikTok&#8217;s US operations until Sept. 15 to forge a deal, threatening to otherwise ban the video app in the country. &#8220;It will close down on Sept. 15 unless Microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it, and work out an appropriate deal,&#8221; Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions\/16005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}