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The on-off talks between Microsoft and the parent company of TikTok back on again. Microsoft has been interested in buying part of TikTok for many months. The tech giant has in talks with the parent company ByteDance Ltd. Discussions between the two companies to a halt last week when US President Donald Trump that he might TikTok from the USA. He was worried that the personal details of over 100 million Americans could into the wrong hands. President Trump his mind at the weekend after the CEO of Microsoft him. Microsoft said it "would that all private data of TikTok's American users is to and remains in the United States."

TikTok is the latest social media platform to hugely popular around the globe. Users very short videos of themselves lip-syncing to well-known songs, dancing, making funny faces or doing other humorous things. TikTok's owner ByteDance a Beijing-based Internet company in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming. It now over 800 million users worldwide. Microsoft is ByteDance $50 billion for the operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However the business website Bloomberg with that valuation. It : "The idea that TikTok - without the UK, India or dozens of other emerging markets - worth $50 billion today fanciful.