Daily US Times: TikTok and Oracle will become business partners in the United States, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal meant to satisfy the Trump administration’s national security concerns about the short-form video app,

The news comes after weeks of speculation about the very popular Chinese app’s future in the United States. President Trump has demanded the micro-video sharing app be sold, or else shut down in the United States.

What are the exact nature of the agreement between Oracle (ORCL) and TikTok remains unclear, but it was not described as an outright sale. The news about Oracle came just after another bidder Microsoft announced that it will not buy TikTok’s US operations from ByteDance.

TikTok declined to comment about the matter, ByteDance has not responded to a request for comment and Oracle did not respond to a request for comment.

A controversial app

TikTok has exploded in popularity in western countries including the United States, becoming the first Chinese social media platform to gain significant traction with users outside of its home country. In the first three months of this year, according to analytics company Sensor Tower.it was downloaded 315 million times in the first three months of this year — more quarterly downloads than any other app in history.

But Trump and other US politicians have said the Chinese poses a threat to national security because it could be used as a spying tool by Beijing. Authorities have also expressed concern that it could censor speech deemed to be sensitive by the Chinese government or could be used to collect personal data on US citizens.

TikTok has denied those allegations and the company has said its data centers are located entirely outside of China and that none of that data is subject to Chinese law.

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