Washington and the world talking, microsoft eyeing an acquisition of tiktok and is this comes after President Trump threatened to ban the app in the u. S. Over security concerns. The president made an about face and gave microsoft the go ahead to proceed with the deal josh lipton has the very latest. So, melissa, President Trump also weighing in here. Take a listen to what he had to say today. It will close down on september 15th unless microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the, really, the treasury, i guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money so, why is microsoft interested in tiktok well, its a wildly popular app with 100 million users already here in the u. S. Engagement trends are strong analysts note that users already spend over an hour a day on the app. Patrick moorhead emphasizes two broad reasons why this could make strategic sense one, he argues microsoft is relatively week in Consumer Ser
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Of sleeping. Big things ahead today, right . Youve got the exclusive with schul schultz, we cant wait for that. Its not about the triple pu on. The value of the payments business at starbucks talking about how much its worth and how important it might be here as a rival to some of these card companies. Yeah. Look, bob nardelli made a great point if you can cut out the little big, the vig that visa and mastercard get, if you can make it so someone nearing the store is able to pay for it ahead of time and own the register why should this be limited to starbucks. This is a trillion dollar market and Howard Schultz moved over from his daytoday running on starbucks to focus on this. Is it worth more than the company . Same say it is, i think its a little bit of hyperbole but well find out. So fascinating. The red carpet on the stairs behind you looks like the dolby theater like youre in the Academy Awards and youll sit next to hanks and brad pitt. Wow. I mean, if they show up if Richard She
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