San Francisco: The probability of Microsoft buying TikTok is "not higher than 20 percent" since the initial price offered by the US software giant was akin to "robbing the owner when his house is on fire".
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The chances of Twitter buying TikTok is said to be even smaller, as the micro-blogging platform "just doesn't have enough money."
- Meanwhile, TikTok could file a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the US as early as Tuesday over an executive order prohibiting transactions with the short video sharing platform's Chinese owner within 45 days, NPR reported.
- The lawsuit will argue that Trump's sweeping ban on the application is unconstitutional because it did not give the company a chance to respond, said the source-based report on Saturday.
- The executive order issued by Trump on August 6 said that data collected by TikTok threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party to access personal and proprietary information of US citizens.
The order said the spread of mobile applications developed and owned by Chinese companies "continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States."
"We have made clear that TikTok has never shared user data with the Chinese government, nor censored content at its request," TikTok said in a blog post after the executive order.
TikTok alleged that the executive order was issued "without any due process."
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(Inputs from IANS)
