With the current scenario of the transfer market, extending the contracts of your best players feels as good as a new signing. Working towards that end, Manchester City are considering contract renewals for midfield star Kevin De Bruyne, winger Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero.
Though the former two have time on their side, the same cannot be said for Aguero. The 32-year-old’s contract expires at the end of the season, and he has been MIA with injuries since the start of the season.
Surprisingly, his contract situation is going under the radar owing to his absence from the pitch. When the January transfer window opens, Aguero will be free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement with other clubs should he want a change in scenery.
However, the player has not come to a decision regarding his future yet. According to Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio on the “Here We Go” podcast, Manchester City’s board are awaiting a decision from the striker, and are all in favour of him staying at the club.
Kevin De Bruyne is on the verge of signing a new deal, while the club is expected to begin negotiations with Raheem Sterling regarding a contract extension with the beginning of the new year. Both players have a few years remaining on their current deals, so the situation is relatively calmer.
Despite a rather shaky start to the 20/21 season with points being dropped via draws and a shocking 2-5 defeat to Leicester at the Etihad, Pep Guardiola has managed to turn things around for the Manchester Blues.
City have conceded the least number of goals out of all the teams in the Premier League so far, with 12 goals against the team. Although they currently sit in 8th, three points from their game in hand against Aston Villa could boost them as high as third.
Renowned display manufacturer from China, Tianma is currently planning on shipping 40 million OLED display panels in 2021, in which 20 million panels are flexible OLEDs. Tianma has set this goal a long time ago, back in August 2020. As per the market research, this company has already shipped around a million OLED panels this year during the global pandemic situation. So, next year, Tianma is looking to ship a huge figure of it, around 40 million OLED panels. Now, it will interesting to see if really Tianma can fetch its goal in 2021 of shipping 40 million units, as it looks like it will only be able to ship 7.5 million OLED panels in the next year.
As of now, the company is in the works to place orders for equipment for its 6th gen OLED factory, TM18. This equipment is very much important for producing panels as it has a production capacity of 48,000 substrates per month which is even higher than the current-gen TM17’s 37,500 substrates production capacity and it is expected that this equipment will be placed in the factory by the first half of 2022. Apart from it, Tianma is also producing rigid OLED panels at its TM15 factory in Shanghai. These rigid OLED panels are about to be used by several smartphone manufacturers: Xiaomi, Lenovo, Asus, HTC, and LG Electronics.
Popular smartphone makers Xiaomi, Vivo, and Honor have already tested Tianma’s flexible OLED panels. Apart from Tianma, Xiaomi may sign a partnership with another display maker. So, in the next couple of years, we will be definitely going to see a bunch of premium smartphones having flexible OLED panels from different manufacturers.
Xiaomi has earlier launched a smartphone, named Mi MIX Alpha that shook the whole smartphone world with its surrounded display design. This was not a regular call from Xiaomi to hit a mass-production of this device, it was just a concept then. It was reported as well that Xiaomi is looking to sell a limited quantity of smartphones in China.
Recently, Xiaomi has come up with a new patent that shows a similar smartphone like the Mi MIX Alpha with a surrounded display. But this time, it is expected to feature pop-up cameras. Let’s find out more about this. Xiaomi has shared 16 sketches of the upcoming smartphone with its detailed design. Those images belong to a patent that was applied by Xiaomi back in April this year and got published on December 18, 2020.
This upcoming phone is expected to be the successor of the Mi MIX Alpha, the Mi MIX Alpha 2. From the patent that has been shared by Xiaomi, we get a 360-degree view of this upcoming device. But apart from its surrounded display, its pop-up camera setup is likely to be a new highlight feature of this phone. The patent images show that this device will not have typical rear cameras, in place, it will sport a mechanized pop-up camera at the top which includes a triple rear camera setup along with Dual LED flash.
Regarding the ports and buttons, this upcoming Xiaomi smartphone features a power button on top as well as a secondary microphone. Similarly, at the bottom part of this phone, we find a speaker grille, primary microphone, 3.5mm audio jack, and a USB Type-C port. What it looks that this smartphone from Xiaomi will be the successor of the Mi MIX Alpha (developed under “Draco”). However, this smartphone was tipped to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC chipset.
Tottenham have had an unbelievable start to the 20/21 campaign, and while their recent form has dropped a little, it is safe to say that Spurs are genuine title contenders this season. Jose Mourinho has managed to make the footballing world completely forget the season gone by, and baptise the team as something very new.
A huge part of the credit behind the success of the team goes to their two best players, Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son. The latter was recently awarded the Korean Player of the Year award for his outstanding 2020 and is currently among the top scorers in the Premier League.
It is only natural that Spurs will try to do everything in their power to keep two of their best players at the club, and an agreement with Son regarding a new deal is close to completion. That update is via Fabrizio Romano, who mentioned that the club and the player were both on the verge of signing the new deal shortly on the “Here We Go” podcast.
Harry Kane currently leads the Premier League in terms of the number of assists in the competition and has been sensational this season. While there was plenty of speculation regarding his future in the past, he looks set to stay at Spurs. Especially considering that no other club in Europe has the capacity to splash out 150 million Euros right now.
Spurs new boy Sergio Reguilon is also very happy at the club and is very focused on the project at hand. He is also enjoying the city and is overall very satisfied with his transfer to London.
While there is still the possibility of Real Madrid activating the buy-back clause in his contract, the final decision regarding the future is up to the player himself. Having only arrived in England recently, Reguilon is part of the title race with Tottenham and is secure with his future at the club for the time being.
Christian Eriksen was recently deemed surplus to requirements by Inter Milan, and the board confirmed that the player would be sold during the January transfer window, which is only a few days away.
The Dane has only made 8 appearances in Serie A this season, with four of those coming off the bench. His fate in other competitions, namely, the Champions League, has not been any better. Antonio Conte clearly does not favour the attacking midfielder in his lineups.
#Arsenal is a possibility for Christian Eriksen but no concrete talks have been initiated for a swap with Granit Xhaka. pic.twitter.com/XXrscUmQX0
All that said, the player has the most caps for club and country in all of Europe this season, but does not even make it to the top 1000 of the players with the most minutes under their belt.
Hence, it is only logical that the board chooses to cash in on the 28-year-old, who is in his peak physical years as a footballer. Having only joined the club a year ago, Eriksen is contractually bound to play for Inter for the next three years at the very least, but that does not seem to be the way forward.
Arsenal have been linked with Christian Eriksen for a while now, which is understandable based on their need for a creative midfielder to create more chances and get the goals that they so desperately need to turn things around.
However, as reported by Fabrizio Romano on the “Here We Go” podcast on Patreon, Arsenal are not making a move for the former Spurs player. It is true that Eriksen has been offered to Arsenal, but there is no pursuit from the club’s end.
Papu Gomez is on the verge of leaving Atalanta, owing to the fallout between the Atalanta captain and manager Gasperini. His profile matches what Arsenal need, and it could be a very wise decision from the Gunners to pursue the Argentinian, given his experience and leadership qualities.
However, there has been no contact between the two parties as of yet.
Manchester United is interested to sign Fiorentina defender Nikola Milenkovic in January. As per reports in Italy, the Red Devils have already contacted the player’s agent for the potential move.
Manchester United is ready to splash some cash to sign the highly rated and highly talented young Serbian defender Nikola Milenkovic. Manchester United faced some problems defensively last season. They have conceded some goals for their own foolish mistakes last season. To make their defense better, they have signed Alex Telles from Porto this summer.
But there was no reinforcement in the centre-back position. Chris Smalling has left the club in the summer and joined AS Roma in a permanent deal. The poor form of Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof, the injury problem of Eric Baily, and Axel Tuanzebe is causing Manchester United multiple problems. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will surely go for a new defender in the next transfer window.
Milenkovic joined the Serie A side in 2017 from Partizan Belgrade for £4.59m. He has played 104 games for Fiorentina and scored 10 goals for the club. His contract with the club will expire in 2022. Fiorentina will consider an offer of more than £23m to let the defender join a new club. Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan are also interested in him.
Milenkovic will be an excellent addition to the Manchester United squad at just around £23m. But United’s transfer policy has been strange of late so it will be interesting to see how this transfer saga goes.
AC Milan is one of those clubs in Europe which are rich with their golden history. The Italian club has experienced a downfall in the last few years. But the club is coming back to their very best slowly and steadily.
AC Milan are now the only undefeated club in Europe’s top five leagues this season after Juventus lost against Fiorentina by 3-0 in the last match. AC Milan are also leading the Serie-A table with 34 points from the first 14 games. They have 1 point lead from Inter.
AC Milan has made some exciting signings in the last couple of seasons. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rebic, Theo Hernandez and many of them are proving their worth. Milan boss Stefano Pioli has found the rhythm and confidence to achieve success again.
AC Milan are now the second team to score more than 2 goals in 15 consecutive matches in the same competition across a single calendar year (after Barcelona 18, in 1948).
Serie A leaders AC Milan are only the second team to score 2+ goals in 15 consecutive matches in the same competition across a single calendar year (Barcelona 18, in 1948) 👀 pic.twitter.com/bTyLy8OiV1
AC Milan beat Lazio this week by 3-2. After the match, Stefano Pioli said, “Unfortunately, the fans are not there, but we can feel their presence. We feel the affection in the city, the passion. The pride comes from the work around the Milan world. We receive more acclaim, but there’s a club behind it, a staff that puts us in a position to work at our best. I’m proud to be part of this club.”
It will be interesting to see how AC Milan capitalize on this kind of start.
There are a few days on the NBA calendar which stand out from the normal days. NBA Opening Day, MLK Day, NBA All-Star Game, NBA Playoffs. One of those days which stand out for NBA fans and players is the Christmas days. Every year a few highly anticipated matchups play against each other on the Christmas Day.
This year too, we have five highly star-stuffed showcases starting from 25th December 10:30 PM (IST) and the last match on 26th December 9:00 AM (IST). Here is our ranking to the 5 matches on the NBA Christmas Day:-
Milwaukee Bucks vs Golden State Warriors (1:00 AM) The Bucks will be hosting the Warriors at the Fiserv Forum as one of the 5 matches. Stars like Stephen Curry, Khris Middleton and former Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo will be taking on the floor and battling out against each other. Even though it will be a good matchup, one can’t really say how competitive this game could be considering the new and inexperienced Warriors team.
Two back-to-back MVPs will be facing off against each other on Christmas Day. Image Credits: Clutch Points
Los Angeles Clippers vs Denver Nuggets (9:00 AM) A rematch of last year’s Western Conference Semifinals will take place at Denver’s Pepsi Center. The Clippers had a 3-1 lead against the Nuggets in last season’s playoffs match, but it was the Nuggets who stole the show by winning the series 4-3. The Clippers have lost a few men including former Sixth Man of the Year Montrezl Harrell, but have also gained a few men like Serge Ibaka. This match could be a good recap of what the Western Conference Semifinals between the two teams felt like and will definitely not fail to entertain us.
Miami Heat vs New Orleans Pelicans (10:30 PM) Zion Williamson and Co. will be hosted by the Heat at the AmericanAirlines Arena for the first match of the Christmas Day games. The defending Eastern Conference Champions, Miami Heat started their 2020-2021 campaign with a disappointing 6 point loss against Orlando. Whereas, New Orleans Pelicans had a great game winning the match comfortably by 14 points. The new additions like Steve Adams and Eric Bledsoe had a good debut for the Pelicans and played a vital role in their victory. This match for sure will be entertaining as both teams have some potential All-Star talent.
Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers (6:30 AM) A young Dallas team led by the young Luka Doncic will be facing the defending champions led by LeBron James who is in his 18th season and doesn’t show any sign of slowing down yet. Both the teams had an opening night loss and would be hungry for their first win of the season. And what better day to start their campaign with a win other than the Christmas Day game? Both, the Lakers and the Mavericks have been a talented and entertaining team to watch on TV. This match is a definite ‘must-watch’ for all the NBA fans.
The LeBron-Luka matchup will be a great duel to witness for NBA fans. Image Credits: Quartz
Brooklyn Nets vs Boston Celtics (3:30 AM) We finally got to see the healthy duo, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant this year. They had an immediate impact for the team, scoring a combined 48 points in their win against the Golden State Warriors. Boston, too, are coming off the most nail-biting game of the tip-off night, taking a narrow 122-121 win against the Milwaukee Bucks. Kyrie Irving will be playing against his former team on Christmas Day – what better headline does an NBA fan want? The matchup of Brooklyn’s offence vs Boston’s defence will definitely get you glued to your TV.
Okay, I am pretty late to write the review of this game as I was indeed busy playing Cyberpunk 2077 for almost two weeks now. Obviously, I was quite frustrated to see the bugs and graphics related issues until both the major Hotfix 1.04 and Hotfix 1.05 updates arrived.
Both of these updates have fixed quite a lot of issues and as I am a Ryzen user, the Hotfix 1.05 update also boosted the performance by almost 40%. I will not say that Cyberpunk 2077 is free of bugs now but still the experience seems lot better than it was during day one launch.
Besides all these, undoubtedly, talking about the game is one of the most interesting and vast games I’ve ever tested, and in a true sense, it is a PC game. Yes, the hardware required to run this game has to be quite modern to get the best out of it. The open-world RPG game has various choices and options that can make or break the entire timeline.
The game was tested on both new and old GPUs and CPUs, with ray tracing off and on, so here’s the experience of the game so far:
Your Path & Character
One of the most interesting decision to be made is when you start the game because your Lifepath and character could actually make a lot of changes to your storyline.
A nomad has a different set of characters and character involved around him or her, yes even the gender choice is damn important. It could actually affect the choices, and the way by which the characters in the story reacts to you.
The character you make has to deal with a lot of people and the answers you make will indeed leave an impact on the storyline.
The way you dress, the things you carry, the weapons you opt to use, and even your cyberdeck could actually change the gameplay. The gear that you collect from various missions can be sold or use to upgrade yourself, and to customize your look is another great thing as you have literally infinite ways of dressing up.
With every mission you collect perk points that can be redeemed to upgrade you body attributes like reflex, technical ability, and other stuff.
One of the key advantages of being a futuristic game is the unique concepts it brings to the table. The modification you can make to the cyberwar directly affects the game and you play it, just go to a ripper doc and use it to buy the available items – from hands to nervous system, you can customize your body in the game.
Night City
Obviously, the main attraction of this game is Night City with all its glory, a futuristic place that has been made with utter dedication with over years now. The skyscrapers, towers, huge buildings made in a futuristic way and unique bridges to connect, the game’s entirety focuses on it.
The roads look very lifelike be it day or night, the illuminations at night makes the Night City even more beautiful. The big displays all over the place, the holdings, advertisements, everything makes Night City a futuristic place in Cyberpunk 2077.
The rooms, the way of interaction and the style of living takes a totally new way with each of them made so niche way that it indeed looks you are in 2077. Even your mirror in your bathroom is digital, everything in Night City is digital and the compact form of digital living is clearly evident throughout the game.
Map
The Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 is really vast that offers a vast opportunity to a gamer who can look around the city to carry out various objectives and travel either with a vehicle or just fast travel to any points.
Fast Travel is really a great way to travel quickly throughout the city to explore various objectives and places you have already visited. Almost all new games with future maps are implementing this feature and is indeed quite helpful.
Cars & Vehicles
This game gives you a heck lot of vehicle choices to make – from the fastest racing cars to all the way up to rusted old school SUVs. You can even try various hi-tech Militech vehicles as a part of the mission or just buy bikes, cars to add to V’s personal vehicle list.
I like the fact that you can call any of your owned vehicles in any part of the map – a futuristic feature I will love to have in the next 50 years maybe.
Bars & Cafes
The Night City is filled with cafeteria’s, bars, pubs, and many more things that may be possible in the future only. Each of the different outsets was unique to each other with each having its own uniqueness and that made it look even more beautiful and I do appreciate the hard work put in making all these possible.
Objectives & Characters
Okay, the game involves a lot of side jobs asides the main story and you have to complete them before you move way forward in your main storyline.
The game is filled with a number of contacts, characters who can prove to be your friend or enemy based on the decisions to take. Jackie will be the first main character you will stumble upon and he can end up being dead only because of your decisions.
The Night City gives you a number of friends and foes, its up to you whom you want to make your bestie. Each decision you take can change the entire portfolio of the game and each time you will end up thinking how could the game progress if I would have taken that decision.
Cyberpunk 2077 is filled with various side missions and objectives that you should definitely try out aside from the main storyline else you will never get them back. After the prologue of the game until Johnny gets into your head the map will be locked but having done the main big mission that brings Johnny, you are free to roam throughout Night City and beyond that.
Each time you meet a new person, the characters contact gets added to your phone and each has various missions from time to time. These missions and objectives also help you to earn money which can be used to upgrade your cyberwire or even your weapons. I used these missions to collect as many weapons I could and I would sell them every often.
Also, not only side missions, when you roam around the city there will be various opportunities to help NCPD, as your a merc in the game, by stopping crimes or getting into investigations.
Choices
The biggest factor of this game is the choices you make in the game, each of the missions involve several characters and you need to deal with a lot of people. Your single choice can even take the life of the character, so for every choice you have different consequences.
You can also make a difference even with your phone, you can call some of your contacts and you will have decisions to make, even you can text someone and that can change the story entirely.
The Story & Johnny Silverhand
Apart from all these, the main thing is of course V’s story, which is already pre-determined and each decision of yours will leave an impact on the original storyline.
You can start as a Nomad or Street Kid or even as a Corpo, however, Jackie will be a common person whichever LifePath you choose. Ultimately you have to get into Araska Tower and steal the relic that contains Johnny Silverhand’s engram. Until that stage it will be your prologue and after that the main story begins.
Johnny Silverhand, aka Keanu Reeves, is all over your head, and whatever action you do, he is there in your head. It’s great to see the concept woven by the game developers. The futuristic storyline is very captivating as both V and Johnny will be interlinking with each other after the prologue.
Obviously, the intro of Johnny is a brief one but a great one honestly, and you can play with his character and get to know his dark past. I liked the unique futuristic concept and the way Johnny’s engram is shown to be stuck inside V’s head.
Wherever you go, whatever mission you play you have Johnny Silverhand by your side commenting on what you are doing and can indeed leave an impact to your decisions. You have some exclusive missions relating to his past as well.
As you dig in the past, you have opportunities to know about Johnny’s love Alt and what happened actually to their love life. This is indeed connected to the backstory behind why all this happened, and he attacked Arasaka, and he was dead, a well-paved story and gamers can play with Keanu Reeves character and make decisions.
Braindance, Hacking & Digital memory
The theory of Braindance is very fascinating and unique, a concept of 2077 that can indeed be possible as one can record the memory and another person can relive the same memory being the other person. So, you can use other’s memories as Braindance and do some detective work as well.
The advantage of having a digital brain is that you can hack anything with your eyes and these are called quick hacks. In very difficult missions these tiny things can help you a lot as there a lot of deadly missions in the game.
The digital memory concept is very intriguing and the way how the main story evolves with Johnny and the concept shown is fascinating. A world for AIs, the digital soul in the cyber world is really unique and goes beyond my head as well, but liked it anyway.
Weapons & Accessories
The weapons in the game are dope as you have a variety of futuristic weapons with a bold look. From heavy snipers and machine guns to assault rifles and pistols, you have both hereditary look guns and modern, classy electrical guns; with every level, the power of your weapons keeps on increasing.
The weapon and accessory management are pretty good, honestly, in the inventory section, you can manage the three main weapons you want to carry. Also, your accessories give you some resistance as they work as armor as well as providing you a stylish look.
Romance & Sex
This is an 18+ game and so it involves a lot of romancing options in the story line whichever lifpath you may choose. You do not know which decision of yours could get you laid on bed and which can actually cut him or her to pieces.
Both Judy and Panam are the most distinctive characters you come across and you can romance with Panam if you start as a male in the game, whereas you can romance with Judy if you start as a girl.
When it comes to get laid, the game is filled with adult things and with a single message you can actually get laid with a cop as well. Also, there are prostitutes in the game both for men and women and there’s sex toys and what not, the content is very explicit and pretty real.
4K footage of the game without Ray Tracing
The Graphics
Well, honestly, I have seen beautiful games before, but this is some other level of graphics, and even without RTX on, the graphics are insane and without good hardware, playing Cyberpunk 2077 makes no sense. Without even turning on the ray-tracing option, you get mind-blowing graphics at 4K medium settings.
4K footage with Ray tracing on
So, I tested with a pretty old RX 580 GPU at 4K, and it was running well without ray tracing. But trying the game with ray tracing is another level, which you cannot understand without seeing; when tried on RTX 3060 Ti, the game was damn good, but it also could not handle ray tracing at 4K.
Cyberpunk 2077 is indeed very graphics hungry game that can be played without ray tracing but for best experience you can get an RTX GPU to get best results at 1440p with RTX on.
Bugs & Performance improvements
To be very honest with you, the game was filled with bugs at day one launch, and I will admit that. Also, 4 core and 6 core Ryzen users had SMT issues that led to performance deficit as well; all of these issues got fixed with all the three major updates.
The game’s loading times are rapid, especially if you install it on a SATA SSD or an NVMe SSD; it ideally loads in almost 10 seconds if you have the latest CPU, or else it can take some time. Even playing on HDD, the game never took more than a minute to load, so kudos to that, but I recommend you play the game with a good processor on PC.
At least use a Ryzen 5 or Core i5 CPU, and if it’s the latest, then it’s well and good as I experienced significant improvement when I jumped from an old Ryzen 5 2400G to a newer Ryzen 5 5600X. If you are on Intel, use a 9th or 10th Gen model to get the best experience.
Well, talking about bugs, there are still minor bugs that can be overlooked and be cured in the time to come. Actually, the game is huge, and many missions are involved, so removing all visual bugs might be a challenging one for developers.
Verdict
Cyberpunk 2077, I feel, is a unique game with a rich storyline and filled with choices that can uniquely build your path. The Night City is cool and looks astonishing as the game is very graphics intensive; this game’s diversity and uniqueness encourage me to open it again and again to explore it.
Besides the main storyline, the other jobs, objectives, characters associated with each of them is vast and enriching. With cyberwire, replaceable organs or body parts, even hacking with your eyes tell you are in the future that we never thought of.
If I could complain one thing, that would be that CD Projekt Red has rushed the game’s launch; I know they would have faced huge criticism after already being delayed. But the year-long reputation and the hype they created got backlashed after a worse release of the game on PlayStation and Xbox One.
The problem that did really cause this is that they tried to infuse a lot of things at day one launch that they did not have time to check the bugs or for performance improvements on last-gen consoles. They could have left some part of the game and released it after months as a major update giving them time to well optimize and debug.
This has created a lot of criticism and negative impacts among fans, but to be very honest, after playing the game for 2 weeks on PC, I understood the hard work they have put in and the deep storyline that they wanted to show their users.
Nevertheless, Cyberpunk 2077, in its true sense, is a game made for PCs and the next-gen consoles that is both enthralling and unique. It’s worth spending on the game if you are a PC gamer who especially want to experience Night City with ray tracing on and a future we are yet to reach.
Chinese video-sharing social networking service TikTok has recorded a $119.5 million loss over 2019 in its U.K. business, driven by costs attributing to advertising and marketing, providing a rare insight into how quickly the app is expanding.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd., has not provided information about global revenue figures, but according to the latest company filings made this week, U.K. sales amounted to $20 million over 2019. Expenses related to sales and marketing came to $109 million over the year. The unit hadn’t begun posting revenue in 2018.
According to Bloomberg, “ByteDance is said to have generated over $3 billion of profit on more than $17 billion of revenue in 2019.” Also, the startup tracker has reported that ByteDance is already worth $140 billion.
Among the teenagers, TikTok has shot to fame globally and has made quite the name for itself over a few years. Its influence has also attracted outrage from the Trump administration, which argues that the app’s Chinese ownership brings about a national security threat.
TikTok had just a handful of staff in the U.K by the end of the year 2018. The social networking app has since been rapidly expanding, hiring hundreds of employees from rival companies. It has also planned on making London its international headquarters. However, no confirmed decision has been made by the company.
“As of today, the TikTok community numbers over 100 million people across the U.K. and Europe, and we’re excited about our future growth potential,” said a TikTok spokesman, according to Bloomberg. “These results reflect an early period of development and investment for TikTok in the U.K., and should be taken in that context.”
Uncertainty lies within the future of TikTok’s global business. In mid-September, a preliminary plan was approved by the U.S. President Donald Trump in which ByteDance would sell part of TikTok to Walmart Inc, Oracle Corp., and U.S. investment firms Sequoia Capital, KKR & Co., and General Atlantic, giving rise to a new independent company called TikTok Global. For months that deal has been stuck in limbo.
The U.K. filing said “a number of strategic options are being considered in connection with the future operational structure of TikTok global business,” but added that the U.K. business would not face any direct impact due to the changes.
