After Activision, Bobby Kotick could buy TikTok | Xbox

After leaving Activision following the company's acquisition by Microsoft, Bobby Kotick must certainly have a fairly long list of projects. And according to Wall Street Journal sources, Bobby could join forces with Sam Altman to buy the famous TikTok network.

The threat of closure of TikTok in the United States

Activision's controversial former CEO has been out of the company's helm for three months now, but things are going well for him as he left with a check for nearly $375 million in compensation, according to reports. by Bloomberg last year.

The question now is what's next and the businessman could well take over TikTok. This may seem surprising, but we know that a text from the committee of the House of Representatives in the United States aims to force the Chinese parent company of TikTok to cede control.

Otherwise ? It’s quite simply the future of TikTok in Uncle Sam’s country that is at stake. And with several tens of millions of users, suffice to say that this does not please TikTok at all, which completely forced American users to consult a message last week when opening the application.

The US House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bill that would give Chinese company ByteDance roughly six months to divest itself of the TikTok app. Under the guise of national security and transfer of user data, the future of the famous video network is therefore rather complicated in one of the largest countries in the world.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said: “We must ensure that the Chinese government cannot use TikTok as a weapon against American users and our government through data collection and propaganda”.

TikTok bought by Bobby Kotick and Sam Altman?

It is not yet clear what decision China would make if such a vote materializes this week in approval, but behind the scenes, Kotick has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring TikTok to ByteDance executive chairman Zhang Yiming, according to China's sources. Wall Street Journal.

It was during a conference on media financing organized by Allen & Company last week that Bobby Kotick reportedly shared his idea of ​​taking over the company with a group including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI which notably publishes the famous ChatGPT in which Microsoft has invested “several billions of dollars”. TikTok could then be used to train OpenAI's artificial intelligence models using valuable data collected from users.

Obviously, all this is not official and we will certainly have to wait a few weeks at least to know the merits of the matter, but the media's sources already mention a sale price for TikTok of the order of several hundred billion of dollars.