Walmart Joins Microsoft Bid for TikTok as Social Media App’s CEO Quits

Walmart Joins Microsoft Bid for TikTok as Social Media App’s CEO Quits
People wear masks and gloves as they wait to enter a Walmart in Uniondale, N.Y., on April 17, 2020. Al Bello/Getty Images
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Walmart said it’s joining Microsoft in a bid for social media company TikTok’s U.S. assets, revealing its plans hours after the video company’s chief executive said he would step down.

CEO Kevin Mayer, a high-profile former Disney executive, is leaving three months after joining TikTok, in the middle of negotiations to sell the Chinese-owned short-form video app’s U.S. operations to Microsoft Corp. or Oracle Corp.