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Microsoft trying to buy TikTok while negotiating with Trump was very strange – Source CNET Tech

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Code Conference 2021

Nadella spoke at the annual tech executive gathering a year after he attempted to buy TikTok.


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When news spread last year that Microsoft was interested in buying the hit social networking app TikTok last year, a lot of techies scratched their heads. What does Microsoft, a company that makes most of its money selling productivity software and services, have to do with a social network like TikTok?

The company’s CEO Satya Nadella didn’t explain his thinking at the time, but a year later he said it actually makes a…

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