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Why do big companies like Microsoft and Oracle want to buy TikTok? They are so powerful, can't they create one themselves?

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pentacular •

They don't want to buy TikTok.

They want to buy the users.

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KB •

You don't buy the app.. You buy the name, data, the potential, the people using it..

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Galuh Utama • • Edited
  1. US politics.
  2. they aren’t buying the app. They’re buying the image, brand, userbase.

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