David against Goliath: 2 duel candidates for Tiktok's acquisition in the USA

Tiktok benefits from a reprieve granted by Donald Trump and therefore still remains accessible in the United States ... provided you have the application already installed on his iPhone. Indeed,Tiktok is no longer available on the American App StoreDue to the entry into force of the US Congress Act. The platform has a few weeks to find a new buyer andTwo candidates would take the stuff to buy Tiktok in Bytedance.

Microsoft or Perplexity to buy Tiktok in Bytedance?

Associated Press reports that Perplexity AI made a proposal in Bytedance, owner of Tiktok, this Saturday. The artificial intelligence startup wishesCreate a new entity that would merge Perplexity and Tiktok American activities. This new structure including other investors would thus allow current shareholders of Bytedance to keep their participation in the company, according to a source close to the file.

However, another company was very closely interested in the acquisition of Tiktok, and not the least.It would simply be Microsoft, as Journalists have entrusted to journalists the President of the United States, Donald Trump, according to Reuters. Microsoft did not wish to comment on the subject for the moment.

We would therefore go straight to a duel between Microsoft and Perplexity AI for the resumption of Tiktok. Of course, the tech giant seems to go with a step ahead of the file because of its much higher financial capacity. However, the interest should not be overlooked by Bytedance and the US government could bring to the financial editing proposed by Perplexity AI.

Note all the same that other avenues are mentioned,Like a recovery by Oracle. Indeed, the company already manages the infrastructure of the platform. Millions of Americans who are very attached to Tiktok hold their breath while waiting to know what will happen to the platform. Recall that some go so far as to spendTens of thousands of dollars to get an iPhone with TiktokInstalled rather than wait before the social network return to the App Store.