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Financial Daily Dose 8.31.2020 | Top Story: New Chinese Tech Law Threatens U.S. Bids for TikTok

Whoever emerges as the victor in the competition for TikTok will have to contend with another complication—this time from China, where on Friday the country “updated its export control rules to cover a variety of technologies it deemed sensitive, including technology that sounded much like TikTok’s personalized recommendation engine.” The change means that TikTok parent ByteDance “might need a license to sell its technology to an American” buyer....
By: Robins Kaplan LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/financial-daily-dose-8-31-2020-top-15321/

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