President Trump to Ban TikTok

President Trump says he will ban TikTok, The Chinese owned video app from the US as quick as Saturday. Trump told reporters on air force one, “As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States”  This news comes with reports of Microsoft being in talks to buy the company. President Trump said he did not support the deal with Microsoft according to NBC 

Amy Hood, Microsofts executive vice president and chief financial officer at the 2018 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit  described their merger and aquisition strategy. 

“For the past five years, we’ve been incredibly consistent — buy communities, look for networked assets, look for growing markets, and look for where we’re a better owner” 

TikTok has grown to over 800 million active users world wide since it's inception and has been downloaded over 2 billion times on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.