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Bill And TikTok Want To Bytedance, But Analysts Ask, 'Why'?

Jack Kouzi, Director of Strategy, VFS Group

05-Aug-20 07:07

Bill And TikTok Want To Bytedance, But Analysts Ask, 'Why'?

With scant commercial arguments in favour of a Tik Tok-Microsoft merger, Jack Kouzi, Director of Strategy at VFS Group, fails to see the point of such a transaction, not helped by threadbare US govt authority to engineer such a union.

Image Credit: Olivier DOULIERY / AFP

Produced by: Mike Gong

Presented by: Khoo Hsu Chuang, Wong Shou Ning


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