Oracle and TikTok: Does a partnership make sense?

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TikTok and Oracle are looking to join hands in what some see as an unlikely pairing. (Source photos by Reuters) 

YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writer

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- Oracle and Bytedance are petitioning Washington to allow the American software giant to serve as TikTok's "trusted technology partner" in the U.S., an arrangement aimed at defusing President Donald Trump's threat to ban the popular video-sharing app.

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