Beijing believes that the terms of the agreement of selling the US division of TikTok to Oracle and Walmart threaten China’s national security. According to Reuters, referring to the Chinese the Global Times, Beijing will not accept such conditions.
At the same time, there has been no official government statement on the issue yet.
The Global Times is considered to be affiliated with the ruling Communist Party. Chief editor Hu Sytszin wrote that the terms of the agreement are unfair and added that the deal would not be approved by Beijing. His tweet drew attention Incrussia.
Under the terms of the deal, the American division of TikTok will be bought by Oracle and Walmart, while Chinese ByteDance, which owns the social network, will retain 80 percent of the shares.
The consolidated net profit of the world’s largest retail chain, American Walmart, for the nine months of 2020-2021 fiscal year (February-October 2020) increased by 44% and amounted to $ 15.714 billion, according to a press release. Walmart’s adjusted net income per share for the nine months was $ 5.48 against $ 3.74 in the same […]
The company Walmart continues to follow the advanced technology in the field of e-commerce and delivery. Walmart has partnered with three drone manufacturers: Flytrex, Zipline and DroneUp, as well as with the large American network of clinical laboratories Quest Diagnostics. According to the company, DroneUp drones have already made 57 flights with the average time […]
Court of the United States in late Sunday night temporarily blocked ban by the administration of President Donald Trump on downloading the TikTok program. This was reported by Reuters on Monday, September 28. Considered, that that the ban was to take effect on Sunday at 23:59 local time (Monday at 6:59 Kyiv time). However, the […]
Microsoft`s shares fell slightly on Monday before the opening of trading due to the news of the failure the deal of buying the popular application TikTok in Chinese ByteDance. Through the support of the deal by President Donald Trump, Shares of Oracle, which is considered №1 candidate of buying TikTok increased by 10% before the […]
YouTube video hosting will launch a new platform for creating short videos. This was reported in the official blog of the company. It is reported that the new service Shorts is designed for fans to record short videos on a smartphone, apply music and effects to them and share with your contributors. Beta testing Shorts […]
American Walmart announced its decision to join Microsoft and to participate together in the struggle for the acquisition of Chinese business TikTok in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. “The way, how TikTok has integrated e-commerce and advertising capabilities in other markets, will be a clear advantage for creators and users in the particular markets,” […]
TikTok and one of its employees sued the administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday, because of his decree of a banning video service transactions in the United States, calling it a reason to incite anti-Chinese rhetoric as he seeks to win the election. TikTok Company of Culver City, California, and its Chinese parent […]
Shares of Nikola fell to 36.45% over the last week. Energy giant BP’s announcement on Wednesday that it is abandoning a potential partnership with Nikola, which exacerbated a number of problems faced by the startup in the recent days. Nikola planned to organize the production of its cars in partnership with other large manufacturers and […]
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Due to the elimination of corruption patterns in the energy sector, the State Treasury has saved 140 billion UAH. On this figure notified the head of the government of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman in an interview to the national news agency Ukrinform. According to the Prime Minister the compensations for Naftohaz and LMKP Teplokommunenergo were hundreds […]
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By 2024, more than 300 branches of Privatbank will be closed; more than six thousand employees will be fired. Such measures are spelled out in the financial institution’s development strategy approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. It is noted that the bank should leave 1250 branches (according to data for 2020, 1688 of them), and […]
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On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase announced the launch of its mobile payment service QuickAccept, and on Wednesday, Visa launched its application called Tap to Phone. The purpose of both programs is to offer sellers an easy way to accept contactless payments from customers via a smartphone or tablet. According to Visa, in the context of the […]
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The ex-president and founder of the largest mobile operator Kyivstar Igor Litovchenko in Ukraine became the owner of the Wireless telecom provider SmartCommunications (TM Giraffe). Ukrainian edition Liga.net informed about this, referring to the State Register of natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal entities. According to official figures, Igor Lytovchenko is the owner of the Cyprus offshore Magnilda Holdings Ltd., which owns Giraffe. As said the […]
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In the first half of the year, Ukrainian banks received UAH 30.077 billion in net profit (+ 26.4% compared to last year), according to the press service of the National Bank. Thus, banks’ revenues for the six months amounted to 124.134 billion hryvnias against 128.620 billion hryvnias a year earlier. The negative result from revaluation […]
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Office of the Attorney General suspects the former owner of Delta Bank, Mykola Lahun, of tax evasion in the amount of 33 million hryvnias. According to the investigation, in February 2015, the former owner of Delta Bank JSC received more than 153 million hryvnias as payment for the purchase of registered shares of the bank […]
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The Kyiv Court of Appeal denied to Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB) in recognition of the decision of the arbitrator of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, which, at the request of VEB, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine was obliged to stop the forced sale of 99.77% of Prominvestbank shares. The court agreed […]
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“MTS Ukraine” (Vodafone Ukraine), telecommunication company reached an agreement with “Ukrtelecom” about buying mobile operator “TriMob”. As noted, the the transaction amounted to about $ 120 million (3 billion UAH). According to one source , negotiations about the deal began since the spring of last year, when the “MTS Ukraine” has sold its fixed network […]
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US Employees of Facebook were allowed to work in a remote location by June next year. Most Facebook personnel were switched to remote mode in late March, and in April, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it is the last among of those to resume working in the office at the end of a pandemic of […]
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The American information technology giant of Microsoft intends to buy the creator and developer of games ZeniMax Media for $ 7.5 billion. “On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company for Bethesda Softworks, one of the world’s largest private developers and game publishers … Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will […]
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The Digital Future Investment Company invests $ 200,000 in the Softcube personalization service. In this round also participated private investor Alexei Kuznetsov, and the total size of the deal was $ 400 000. There is another investor in the transaction, he is going to announce its participation later, because now he is at the stage […]
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The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, became the highest paid CEO in the United States last year, according to Forbes magazine. The publication reminds that in 2018 Musk gave up his salary at Tesla. Instead, he receives a reward in the form of options on the company’s shares. In 2020, the businessman received […]
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OPEC + member states have agreed to increase oil production by 400,000 bpd per month from August. This is stated in a press release from OPEC. It is noted that the OPEC + countries will seek to eliminate the current restrictions in September 2022. Thus in December, 2021 the estimation of the market is given. […]
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Lego plans to open 120 new stores in 2020, according to Retail Gazette. The company reported sales growth in the first half of the year. In quarantine kits were very popular, in particular, among adult consumers. “About 80 new outlets will be located in China. Now the company has 612 stores worldwide,” – said Lego […]
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According to the updated data of the State Statistics Service, Ukraine’s GDP growth in the second quarter of 2021 was 5.7% in annual terms, which is 0.3% higher than the previous estimate. In particular, for six months the nominal GDP was UAH 1 trillion 169.4 billion, and per capita – UAH 28.19 thousand. Compared to […]
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