Is Bill Gates buying Tik Tok?

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has described the company’s potential TikTok deal as a poisoned chalice. In a wide-ranging interview with Wired, Gates makes it clear that Microsoft acquiring parts of TikTok won’t be easy or simple. “Who knows what’s going to happen with that deal,” says Gates.

Is Bill Gates buying Tik Tok?

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has described the company’s potential TikTok deal as a poisoned chalice. In a wide-ranging interview with Wired, Gates makes it clear that Microsoft acquiring parts of TikTok won’t be easy or simple. “Who knows what’s going to happen with that deal,” says Gates.

How many more years will the earth last?

One billion years from now, Earth’s atmosphere will contain very little oxygen, making it uninhabitable for complex aerobic life.

What will happen to the Earth in the next 5 billion years?

A possible planet for the old star L2 Puppis may offer a sneak peek. Artist’s concept of Earth approximately 5 billion years from now, when the sun becomes a red giant. Our sun is burning along merrily as a middle-aged star, but in 5 billion years, as the sun ages, it’ll swell to become a red giant.

Who owns Tik Tok USA?

On 9 November 2017, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, spent up to US$1 billion to purchase musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California, US.

How long would it take to save a billion dollars?

Imagine someone gave you a million dollars and told you to spend $1,000 every day and come back when you ran out of money. You would return, with no money left, in three years. If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.

What will happen 1 billion years from now?

The planet’s surface temperature will increase dramatically and be too hot for most life, also within a billion years. And the decrease in carbon dioxide and a significant alteration of the atmosphere could take place well before 1 billion years from now.

How is Bill Gates so rich?

1 He earned the bulk of his fortune as CEO, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft (MSFT). Gates stepped down as chairman in 2014, but still owns 1.34% of the company he co-founded. 2 Here is where this billionaire stashes some of his money.

Who owns TikTok now?

Related Coverage. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming resisted the sale of TikTok last year despite calls from his large Western investors to do so. ByteDance, which counts General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital among its backers, was valued at $180 billion in December, according to investment data research company PitchBook.