{"id":897476,"date":"2025-01-20T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897476"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:32:05","slug":"ai-startup-perplexity-said-to-submit-bid-to-merge-with-tiktoks-us-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/20\/ai-startup-perplexity-said-to-submit-bid-to-merge-with-tiktoks-us-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Perplexity said to submit bid to merge with TikTok&#8217;s US unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI submitted a bid to TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd., to merge with its US operations and create a new entity, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The structure would allow most of ByteDance\u2018s existing investors to retain their stakes, according to CNBC, which cited a person with knowledge of the situation, and reported on the bid earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI submitted a bid to TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd., to merge with its US operations and create a new entity, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The structure would allow most of ByteDance\u2018s existing investors to retain their stakes, according to CNBC, which cited a person with knowledge of the situation, and reported on the bid earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}