{"id":897797,"date":"2025-01-20T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897797"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:04:59","slug":"how-tiktok-app-may-become-indian-american-from-chinese-if-this-proposal-goes-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/20\/how-tiktok-app-may-become-indian-american-from-chinese-if-this-proposal-goes-through\/","title":{"rendered":"How TikTok app may become &#8216;Indian-American&#8217; from Chinese if this proposal goes through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US search engine startup, Perplexity AI, has reportedly submitted a proposal to merge with TikTok US, the Chinese-owned platform\u2019s parent company ByteDance. According to a report in Reuters, a source familiar with the matter, US search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid to TikTok&#8217;s Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok US. For those unaware, Aravind Srinivas is the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI. He co-founded the company in 2022 with Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, and Johnny Ho.<\/p>\n<p>Srinivas was in India recently and met PM Narendra Modi. Last week, Perplexity AI announced plans to expand the company\u2019s operations in India, inviting applications for a strategic role. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US search engine startup, Perplexity AI, has reportedly submitted a proposal to merge with TikTok US, the Chinese-owned platform\u2019s parent company ByteDance. According to a report in Reuters, a source familiar with the matter, US search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid to TikTok&#8217;s Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok US. For those unaware, Aravind Srinivas is the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI. He co-founded the company in 2022 with Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, and Johnny Ho. Srinivas was in India recently and met PM Narendra Modi. Last week, Perplexity AI announced plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897797","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}