Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls Trump-driven Tiktok deal ‘stra

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls Trump-driven Tiktok deal ‘strangest thing’ he’s ever worked on

KEY POINTS

• Microsoft’s failed attempt to take over TikTok’s U.S. assets last year was “the strangest thing I’ve ever sort of worked on,” CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday.
• In August 2020, TikTok was in talks to sell its U.S. operations because the Trump administration threatened to ban the app unless parent company ByteDance found a U.S. buyer for it.
• President Joe Biden signed an executive order in June revoking the Trump administration order to ban the app.

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