An in-depth analysis of the Walmart and Microsoft joint bid to acquire TikTok's US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand operations from ByteDance. Will the deal benefit all involved, especially shareholders? Should you BUY $MSFT and/or $WMT if you don't already own them?

This video attempts to dig into the details of both the politics and the science of the deal, via articles and data.

On August the 7th, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order to ban the social media platform, TikTok, from operating within the US, on the grounds of protecting the data privacy of American citizens. While controversial, the order remains consistent with the administration's long standing political battle with the world's second largest economy, which started in 2018 as a trade war of tariffs on imports but eventually did culminat in the outright ban of Huawei phones and 5G infrastrucutre, as recently as May of 2019.

Walmart and Microsoft have both emerged as frontrunners in a bid to acquire TikTok, which is projected to be worth between 20 billion and 30 billion USD. Walmart stands to benefit by acquiring a viable e-commerce channel and exposure to Gen Z consumers, while Microsoft can augment its already massive professional data with person data.

Oracle, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and even Twitter have all been mentioned as potential destinations as well, but as will be discussed in this video, none of these candidates make as much sense as the Walmart & Microsoft pairing.

Timestamps:
- Intro: 0:00
- What is TikTok?: 0:38
- Trump bans TikTok: 1:57
- The CCP fires back: 4:14
- TikTok to sell its US Operations: 5:25
- Walmart teams up with Microsoft: 5:48
- Oracle bids on TikTok: 6:17
- Facebook & Antitrust: 7:34
- Google is out of the running: 8:25
- Trump and Bezos have beef: 9:02
- Apple and TikTok don't mesh: 9:31
- Twitter can't afford TikTok: 10:04
- Why Microsoft wants to buy TikTok: 10:40
- Why Walmart wants to buy TikTok: 14:03
- Closing statement: 16:06
- Outro: 17:23

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