{"id":12111,"date":"2020-08-04T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2020-08-04T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:30:21","slug":"bytedance-says-goal-of-us-was-to-ban-tiktok-app-rather-than-force-a-sale-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12111","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance says goal of US was to ban TikTok app rather than force a sale &#8211; business news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"kmUBTRGoRNRmUNSW06IUkK_story\">\n<div class=\"ht-breadcrumb-new\">\n\t\t\t   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/\" title=\"Home\">Home <\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/business-news\/\" title=\"Business News\">Business News<\/a> \/ <span>ByteDance says goal of US was to ban TikTok app rather than force a sale<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2>ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok US operations but rather to ban the app, and that some people had misconceptions about the situation. <\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"cta-link lok-sabha-elections-cb-sectionmr-15\">business<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-dt\">Updated: Aug 04, 2020 17:22 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/rf\/image_size_960x540\/HT\/p2\/2020\/08\/04\/Pictures\/_8fbfe6a0-d648-11ea-8b8b-acf3d7dccc30.jpg\" alt=\"The letter, which was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by a source to Reuters, was sent only to ByteDance\u2019s Chinese employees after news that ByteDance was in talks to sell parts of TikTok to Microsoft Corp prompted online criticism of the firm and Zhang.\" title=\"The letter, which was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by a source to Reuters, was sent only to ByteDance\u2019s Chinese employees after news that ByteDance was in talks to sell parts of TikTok to Microsoft Corp prompted online criticism of the firm and Zhang.\"\/><figcaption>The letter, which was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by a source to Reuters, was sent only to ByteDance\u2019s Chinese employees after news that ByteDance was in talks to sell parts of TikTok to Microsoft Corp prompted online criticism of the firm and Zhang. (File photo for representation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"storyDetail\">\n<p>ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok US operations but rather to ban the app, and that some people had misconceptions about the situation. <\/p>\n<p>The letter, which was reported by Chinese media and confirmed by a source to Reuters, was sent only to ByteDance\u2019s Chinese employees after news that ByteDance was in talks to sell parts of TikTok to Microsoft Corp prompted online criticism of the firm and Zhang. <\/p>\n<p>ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p><!--   section:business-news mainSection:business-news-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscribe-update\" id=\"thankumsg\">\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"right-icon\"\/> <span class=\"msg\">Thank you for subscribing to our daily newsletter.<\/span>&#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/business-news\/bytedance-says-goal-of-us-was-to-ban-tiktok-app-rather-than-force-a-sale\/story-kmUBTRGoRNRmUNSW06IUkK.html\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \/ Business News \/ ByteDance says goal of US was to ban TikTok app rather than force a sale ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok US operations but rather to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8fbfe6a0-d648-11ea-8b8b-acf3d7dccc30.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}