Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMicrosoft confirmed that it is in talks to buy TikTok from China’s ByteDance — coming after Donald Trump said he opposed such a deal and has claimed he plans to ban TikTok.Microsoft said that if it consummated a deal for TikTok, it would move all data servers covering U.S.-based users to American shores, in a bid to alleviate U.S.
policymakers’ concerns that Chinese government officials might be able to track TikTok users or access private messages.“Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J.
Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States,” the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant said in a statement Sunday.
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