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Alphabet's Google is not in race to acquire China's TikTok: Sundar Pichai

TikTok, which has 100 million users in the US, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order banning any US transactions with its parent company ByteDance

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On the podcast, Pichai said that TikTok is growing amid the pandemic like several other tech companies out there

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2 min read Last Updated : Aug 27 2020 | 10:49 AM IST

Alphabet and Google chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai has denied that the company is in the race to acquire the Chinese short-video making app TikTok.

On the latest episode of podcast 'Pivot Schooled Live', the Recode's Kara Swisher and New York University Professor Scott Galloway asked Pichai whether the company is interested in acquiring TikTok.

"We are not," Pichai replied, adding that the ByteDance-owned app does pay for using Google Cloud services.

TikTok, which has 100 million users in the US, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order banning any US transactions with its parent company ByteDance.

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Topics : Google TikTok US China trade war Donald Trump