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FILE PHOTO: The Oracle logo is displayed in an office building in Irvine, California, USA June 28, 2018. REUTERS / Mike Blake (Reuters) – Oracle Corp. has held preliminary talks with TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, and has seriously considered buying the app’s operations in the United States, Canada, Australia and …
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NEW YORK / HONG KONG (Reuters) – Some investors in TikTok parent company ByteDance, seeking to take over the popular social media app, value it at around $ 50 billion, significantly more than its peers, like Snap. Inc (SNAP.N), according to people familiar with the matter. FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok …
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SHANGHAI / BEIJING (Reuters) – The global ambitions of Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei are marked in brick and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas of European cities. FILE PHOTO: Employees are seen after a day of work at the new Huawei …
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