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Monday, September 21 2020 - 08:00
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Oracle & Walmart Announce Tentative U.S. Government Approval
REDWOOD SHORES, California and BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/

The President has announced that ByteDance has received tentative approval for 
an agreement with the U.S. Government to resolve the outstanding issues, which 
will now include Oracle and Walmart together investing to acquire 20% of the 
newly formed TikTok Global business. 

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As a part of the deal, TikTok is creating a new company called TikTok Global 
that will be responsible for providing all TikTok services to users in United 
States and most of the users in the rest of the world. Today, the 
administration has conditionally approved a landmark deal where Oracle becomes 
TikTok's secure cloud provider.

TikTok Global will be majority owned by American investors, including Oracle 
and Walmart. TikTok Global will be an independent American company, 
headquartered in the U.S., with four Americans out of the five member Board of 
Directors.

All the TikTok technology will be in possession of TikTok Global, and comply 
with U.S. laws and privacy regulations. Data privacy for 100 million American 
TikTok users will be quickly established by moving all American data to 
Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud data centers, the most secure cloud data centers in 
the world. 

Based on decades of experience securing the world's most sensitive data, 
Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud fully isolates running applications and responds to 
security threats autonomously. This unique technology eliminates the risk of 
foreign governments spying on American users or trying to influence them with 
disinformation. 

In addition to its equity position, Walmart will bring its omni-channel retail 
capabilities including its Walmart.com assortment, eCommerce marketplace, 
fulfillment, payment and measurement-as-a-service advertising service. 

TikTok Global will create more than 25,000 new jobs in the Unites States and 
TikTok Global will pay more than 5 billion in new tax dollars to the U.S. 
Treasury.

TikTok Global, together with Oracle, SIG, General Atlantic, Sequoia, Walmart 
and Coatue will create an educational initiative to develop and deliver an 
AI-driven online video curriculum to teach children from inner cities to the 
suburbs, a variety of courses from basic reading and math to science, history 
and computer engineering. 

TikTok Global will have an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in less than 12 months 
and be listed on a U.S. Exchange. After the IPO, U.S. ownership of TikTok 
Global will increase and continue to grow over time.

With this agreement, TikTok Global will able to continue to provide a hundred 
million Americans with access to the social network they love, and spark much 
needed competition in the market for social networks.

About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for Sales, 
Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, 
plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the 
Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), 
please visit us at www.oracle.com.

About Walmart
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live 
better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their 
mobile devices. Each week, over 265 million customers and members visit 
approximately 11,500 stores under 56 banners in 27 countries and eCommerce 
websites. With fiscal year 2020 revenue of $524 billion, Walmart employs over 
2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in 
sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. Additional 
information about Walmart can be found by visiting corporate.walmart.com ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2922605-1&h=2603414222&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcorporate.walmart.com%2F&a=corporate.walmart.com 
), on Facebook at facebook.com/walmart ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2922605-1&h=3831227379&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fwalmart&a=facebook.com%2Fwalmart 
) and on Twitter at twitter.com/walmart ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2922605-1&h=975793941&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fwalmart&a=twitter.com%2Fwalmart) 
.

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SOURCE  Oracle

CONTACT: Deborah Hellinger, Senior Vice President, Oracle Corporate 
Communications, (212) 508-7935, deborah.hellinger@oracle.com; Randy Hargrove, 
Senor Director, National Media Relations, Walmart, 1-800-331-0085, 
randy.hargrove@wal-mart.com
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