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Trump has given Microsoft<\/a> until Sept. 15 to put together a blueprint for an acquisition that safeguards the personal data<\/a> of Americans stored on the short-video app, and he has issued an order to ban it if there is no deal by then.
Microsoft is negotiating a transition period that will give it time to ringfence TikTok<\/a> technologically from ByteDance<\/a> after they agree to a deal, Reuters reported on Aug. 2.
The clean break that Trump and lawmakers envision could take a year or more, some of the sources said.
TikTok is functionally and technically similar to ByteDance-owned Douyin, which is available only in China, and shares technical resources with it and other ByteDance-owned properties, people familiar with the matter said.
ByteDance started working on their technological separation several months ago amid scrutiny from the U.S. government, a source familiar with the process told Reuters. It began planning for a split as part of a strategy to shift its power from China, Reuters has reported.
While the code for the app, which determines the look and feel of TikTok, has been separated from Douyin, the server code is still partially shared across other ByteDance products, the source said. The server code provides basic functionality of the apps such as data storage, algorithms for moderating and recommending content and the management of user profiles.
To ensure uninterrupted TikTok service, Microsoft would likely need to rely on ByteDance's code while it reviews and revises the code, and moves to a new back-end infrastructure to serve users, according to cyber security expert Ryan Speers at River Loop Security, which provides services including cybersecurity due diligence for deals.
Any continuing technical or operational reliance of the U.S. business on the Chinese company after the sale generally would have been unacceptable to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), said Aimen Mir, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury responsible for CFIUS, now a partner at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
In the past, CFIUS has required adoption of increased protections pending a sale, including separation of the U.S. business from foreign sellers to the furthest extent possible, he said.
Another challenge Microsoft faces is how it will transfer what is viewed as TikTok's secret sauce, the recommendation engine that keeps users glued to their screens. This engine, or algorithm, powers TikTok's \"For You\" page, which recommends the next video to watch based on an analysis of user behavior.
TikTok uses recommendation algorithms that are independent from Douyin, according to two sources familiar with the matter. But what makes it tick is the content and user information that is fed into the algorithm.
\"Algorithms are not worth anything without the data,\" said Jim DuBois, a former Chief Information Officer at Microsoft. DuBois is a venture adviser at Ignition Partners<\/a>. \"Segmenting the data for those countries is a significant task.\"
Microsoft's negotiations for the acquisition of the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia operations of TikTok complicates a separation. Not only would TikTok have to be separated from ByteDance, it would have to be broken up from TikTok's other regions. This adds to the technical challenges because of the amount of data involved.
\"The biggest part is separating the user data - both content and data about users,\" DuBois said, noting hard disks of data would likely need to be transferred between ByteDance and Microsoft.
The proposed timeline makes consummating a deal very challenging, said Karen C. Hermann, a deal lawyer at Venable LLP: \"It can sometimes take months and months just to identify the business needs of the divested business, what IP and other assets it uses exclusively, and what assets and IP it shares with other businesses in the company group.\"
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微软面临着复杂的技术挑战TikTok项赢利,愤怒的特朗普管理风险
特朗普给了微软,直到9月15日收购整合一个蓝图,保障美国人的个人数据存储在视频应用,禁止发布命令,他如果没有交易。
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特朗普给了微软直到9月15日一起收购,保障的蓝图个人资料的美国人存储在视频应用,禁止发布命令,他如果没有交易。
微软正在谈判一个过渡期,会给它时间限制TikTok技术从ByteDance他们同意协议后,据路透社报道,8月2日。
彻底决裂,特朗普和立法者设想可能需要一年甚至更久,消息人士称。
TikTok功能和技术类似于ByteDance-owned Douyin,这是只有在中国,和股票技术资源和其他ByteDance-owned属性,知情人士说。
ByteDance开始研究技术分离几个月前从美国政府审查之际,一位知情人士透露,这个过程对路透表示。开始规划分割作为战略的一部分,将它的力量来自中国,路透社报道。
而应用程序的代码,它决定了TikTok的外观和感觉,Douyin分开,服务器代码仍部分其他ByteDance产品之间共享,消息人士称。服务器代码提供了应用程序的基本功能,如数据存储、调节算法和推荐内容和用户资料的管理。
确保不间断TikTok服务,微软可能会需要依靠ByteDance代码审查和修改代码,和移动到一个新的后端基础设施服务用户,根据网络安全专家瑞安·斯皮尔斯在河循环安全,提供的服务包括网络安全交易的尽职调查。
任何持续的技术或操作依赖美国企业在中国公司销售通常会接受美国外国投资委员会(CFIUS), Aimen米尔说,前副助理财政部长负责外国投资委员会,现在法律英国富而德律师事务所(Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)公司的合伙人。
在过去,外国投资委员会已要求采用增加保护等待出售,包括美国分离业务从外国卖家最遥远的程度,他说。
微软面临的另一个挑战是如何转移视为TikTok的秘密武器是什么,推荐引擎,使得用户盯着屏幕不放。这个引擎,或算法,权力TikTok“你”页面,建议下个视频看基于用户行为的分析。
独立于Douyin TikTok使用推荐算法,据两位知情人士。但什么让蜱虫是输入的内容和用户信息的算法。
“算法是不值得任何没有数据,”吉姆·迪布瓦说,微软前首席信息官。杜布瓦是一个风险顾问点火的合作伙伴。这些国家“分段的数据是一项重要的任务。”
微软的收购谈判的美国、加拿大、新西兰和澳大利亚的业务TikTok复杂分离。不仅TikTok ByteDance分开,它必须被拆分TikTok的其他地区。这增加了技术上的挑战,因为它涉及到的数据量。
“最大的部分是将用户数据(包括内容和用户的数据,”迪布瓦说,注意硬盘之间传输的数据可能需要ByteDance和微软。
提议的时间表使完善交易非常具有挑战性,凯伦·c·赫尔曼说,协议在Venable LLP的律师:“有时候需要几个月和几个月来识别业务需求的业务,它使用专门知识产权和其他资产,而资产和IP股份公司与其他企业集团。”
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