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The TikTok saga continues

Listen to the full episode here: The TikTok saga continues: This week we spent a few minutes discussing why bankers are incentivized to make the proposed TikTok-Microsoft deal as competitive as possible. Or at least make it look as competitive as possible. And, there’s some data from inside Microsoft about how the deal is being…

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The TikTok saga continues: This week we spent a few minutes discussing why bankers are incentivized to make the proposed TikTok-Microsoft deal as competitive as possible. Or at least make it look as competitive as possible. And, there’s some data from inside Microsoft about how the deal is being viewed.

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  1. 神无敌

    August 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    .

  2. अंशुमान Mishra

    August 16, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    That’s stupid

    • अंशुमान Mishra

      August 17, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      @Unique _x33 then who the hell you telling me shutup and why??

    • Unique _x33

      August 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm

      अंशुमान Mishra I wasn’t talking to you I said that to the person under you’re comment gosh .

    • अंशुमान Mishra

      August 17, 2020 at 6:04 pm

      @Unique _x33 if you really wasn’t talking to me then you can tag the person name whom you telling at least understanding will be clear

    • Unique _x33

      August 17, 2020 at 6:14 pm

      अंशुमान Mishra I do as I please . Like I said it wasn’t for you

    • अंशुमान Mishra

      August 17, 2020 at 6:48 pm

      Blah…blah…blah

  3. DJ

    August 16, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    nuke tiktok and ban alibaba

  4. Eric Smalls

    August 16, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    Lol good joke…y don’t they give 1/5 to all the big tech cos lol

  5. Leto2ndAtreides

    August 16, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    Ah, stealing a foreign company…

    Not sure Tik Tok is really a good fit for Microsoft. But what can you do.

  6. Rohit Gaikwad

    August 17, 2020 at 1:23 pm

    Trump extended to September 30th

    • अंशुमान Mishra

      August 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm

      Ish bande ko sab kuch pata hai haha…

  7. Brandon Reed

    August 18, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Nobody is paying “cash” for TikTok. It’s going to be an all stock deal. It doesn’t matter how much cash Twitter has.

  8. chan pal

    August 18, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    TechCrunch is becoming like CNN and Bloomberg i.e. radical left agents. I am beginning to see a lot of biased anti-India articles on TechCruncg in pas few months. This has to stop, otherwise, it’s loose readers like me.

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