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Sort of hard to imagine a more ham-fisted owner for something as cool as TikTok. If IBM or GE bought them it wouldn’t make less sense.

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Yeah, this surprised me too. As sceptical as I am of TikTok and its "I can't believe it's not malware" approach to privacy I feel a bit sorry for the poor sods actually developing it. Oracle are going to beat the world record for deepest borehole with how hard they'll run the app into the ground.

Can't wait to see how they spin it as some overpriced enterprise software while it fades into irrelevancy! /s

I don't think you need the /s tag there, that's exactly what I expect to happen.

I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here? Aside from making more money, of course, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a less synergistic combo than Oracle's aging dinosaur enterprises and TikTok's fickle teenagers.

> I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here?

Appeasing Trump?

> Aside from making more money, of course

He can push Trump to lower the price, with the force of the United States Government behind it, then flip it to Microsoft for twice the price in 3 months when Trump loses the election.

A whole new generation will come to know the extent of Larry Ellison.

Murdoch on MySpace: 'We Screwed Up in Every Way Possible'

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/murdoch-on-myspace/

I had hoped for more there there when I looked at this article. In this case the headline is pretty much the whole of the content.

In Act III, Revenge of the Mogul, Murdoch convinces the Australian government to draft new legislation requiring Google and Facebook to subsidise News Corporation's loss making newspapers by paying him for the clicks that send readers to his own websites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494

ACT II was when Murdoch convinced the Australian government to forgive $882 million in taxes.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/17/rupert-murdoch...

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You might find this backstory of interest, dhosek. It's about the time a youthful Zuckerberg kicked sand in the mogul's face

https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdochs-myspace-apparently-still...

Oracle is a fun choice. How about Circle-k corporation? Maybe Monsanto/Bayer or Halliburton?

Wait for the last minute Kodak bid (which, while improbable and bonkers, would also make at least a kind of sense)

Why is tiktok cool? Or more cool than vine or imgur.

Vine doesn't exist. Imgur has a mildly toxic community and a load of porn.

Imgur has stopped allowing (new, explicit) porn:

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029648691-Mature...

Wow. Absolutely no fun allowed.

I think the implication of the question was why did TikTok become "cool" when vine didn't? They're essentially very similar.

Vine was cool - the reason it died had more to do with Twitter pretty much being in a death spiral before Trump became president. However, the biggest innovation TikTok brought was their own flavor of the algorithmic feed that made finding content a lot easier.

Vine was cool, when it existed, and there are many vine videos which got uploaded to YouTube, and there are many Vine compilations on YT with millions of views.

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