TikTok和甲骨文沃尔玛初步达成三方意向
今天上午，字节跳动宣布，与美国甲骨文和沃尔玛两家公司形成原则性共识，三方将据此共识，尽快达成满足中美两国法律要求的合作协议。
Oracle And Walmart To Acquire 20% Stake In TikTok, Trump Gives His ‘Blessing’
Forbes
Oracle and Walmart have agreed to acquire a 20% stake in TikTok’s global business as part of a pre-IPO financing round, the ByteDance owned video-sharing platform announced in a press release on Saturday, moments after President Donald Trump told the press that he had given his “blessing” to the deal.
Oracle will acquire 12.5% of the video sharing platform, while Walmart will have a 7.5% stake.
As part of the deal, Oracle will serve as TikTok’s “secure cloud technology provider” and Walmart will be a commercial partner by entering “into commercial agreements to provide our e-commerce, fulfillment, payments and other omnichannel services to TikTok Global,” Walmart said in a statement.
The partnership will create a new company, TikTok Global, that will go public in less than 12 months on a U.S. exchange, and over time “U.S. ownership of TikTok Global will increase and continue to grow,” according to a joint statement from both Oracle and Walmart.
The deal still has to be formally approved by U.S. regulators, but Trump on Saturday told reporters he likes the agreement “in concept” and gives it his blessing, though it still falls short of Trump’s initial ask for TikTok to be sold entirely to a U.S. company.
Trump said the new entity would likely be incorporated in Texas and include a “$5 billion contribution” for a “large fund” for the “education of American youth,” but it’s unclear where exactly the money is going because both Oracle and Walmart referred to it as “5 billion in new tax dollars to the U.S. Treasury.”
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Saturday night he will delay for a week restrictions set to take effect Sunday that would have banned the app from the App Store and the Google Play Store.
In its press release, Oracle said it will “combine its secure cloud technology with continuous code reviews, monitoring, and auditing to provide unprecedented assurance that U.S. TikTok user data is private and secure.” Earlier this week Bloomberg had reported that Oracle will get full access to TikTok’s source code and updates to ensure the platform’s Chinese parent cannot add any security backdoors to access data from the app’s U.S. users.
The Oracle proposal, which was first announced last week, faced pushback from Republican lawmakers including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) who wrote an open letter to the Treasury Department calling for it to reject the deal on national security grounds. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a group of other Republican lawmakers had also written to Trump asking him to reject any deal that would allow “China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based version of TikTok.”
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Oracle And Walmart To Acquire 20% Stake In TikTok, Trump Gives His ‘Blessing’
Forbes
Oracle and Walmart have agreed to acquire a 20% stake in TikTok's global business as part of a pre-IPO financing round, the ByteDance owned video-sharing platform announced in a press release on Saturday, moments after President Donald Trump told the press that he had given his “blessing” to the deal.
字节跳动（ByteDance）旗下的视频分享平台周六在一份新闻稿中宣布，甲骨文（Oracle）和沃尔玛（Walmart）已经同意收购TikTok全球业务20%的股份，作为IPO前融资的一部分。此前，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）告诉媒体他已经对这笔交易表达 了“祝福”。
acquire
大概近期Tiktok相关的文章都会出现的一个词，acquire作动词，表示“取得，获得；购得；学到；收购”，英文解释为“to get something”举个🌰：
acquisition
acquisition名词，表示“收购”，英文解释为“If a company or business person makes an acquisition, they buy another company or part of a company.”举个🌰：
They have made acquisitions in several EU countries.
他们在几个欧盟国家购买了一些产业。
🎬电影《美国队长2：冬日战士》（Captain America: The Winter Soldier）中的台词提到：The prevailing theory was that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sale of classified intelligence. 大部分人的看法是劫持事件只是在掩盖机密情报的交易。
stake
1）表示“股本；股份”，英文解释为“money that sb invests in a company”如：a 20% stake in the business 那家公司20%的股份。
2）表示“（在公司、计划等中的）重大利益，重大利害关系”，英文解释为“an important part or share in a business, plan, etc. that is important to you and that you want to be successful”举个🌰：
She has a personal stake in the success of the play.
这出戏成功与否对她个人有重大利害关系。
Oracle will acquire 12.5% of the video sharing platform, while Walmart will have a 7.5% stake.
甲骨文将收购该视频分享平台12.5%的股份，而沃尔玛将拥有7.5%的股份。
As part of the deal, Oracle will serve as TikTok's “secure cloud technology provider” and Walmart will be a commercial partner by entering “into commercial agreements to provide our e-commerce, fulfillment, payments and other omnichannel services to TikTok Global,” Walmart said in a statement.
作为交易的一部分，甲骨文将作为TikTok的“云安全技术提供商”，而沃尔玛将成为商业合作伙伴，“签订商业协议，向TikTok全球（TikTok Global）提供我们的电子商务、履行、支付和其他全渠道服务，”沃尔玛在一份声明中说。
fulfillment
表示“履行；实行；满足（感）”，英文解释为“the act or process of delivering a product (such as a publication) to a customer”。
omnichannel
表示“多渠道；全渠道”，英文解释为“used to refer to a way of selling products that is the same and equally good for the customer whether they are buying from a computer, a mobile phone app, etc., or in a physical shop”。
📍omni-前缀表示“总；全部；遍”（of all things; in all ways or places），如：omnipresent 无所不在，omniscient 无所不知的；全知全能的；博闻广识的，omnivore 杂食动物。
The partnership will create a new company, TikTok Global, that will go public in less than 12 months on a U.S. exchange, and over time “U.S. ownership of TikTok Global will increase and continue to grow,” according to a joint statement from both Oracle and Walmart.
根据甲骨文和沃尔玛双方的联合声明，此次合作将成立一家新公司TikTok全球（TikTok Global），该公司将在不到12个月的时间内于美国交易所上市，随着时间的推移，“美国对TikTok Global的所有权将不断增加”。
go public
1) 表示“公开，公之于众”，英文解释为“to tell everyone about something that was secret”举个🌰：
The planners are almost ready to go public on the road-building scheme.
规划者们差不多准备好公布筑路方案了。
2) 表示“（公司）公开发售股票，上市”，英文解释为“to become a public company”举个🌰：
The company went public in 2017.
这家公司于2017年上市。
🎬电影《美国队长3：内战》（Captain America: Civil War）中的台词提到：Tips have been pouring in since that footage went public. 录像公布后收到了很多线报。
🎬电影《心理游戏》（The Game）中的台词提到：CRS won't go public. They're family owned. 「消服会」不上市，它是家族企业。
The deal still has to be formally approved by U.S. regulators, but Trump on Saturday told reporters he likes the agreement “in concept” and gives it his blessing, though it still falls short of Trump's initial ask for TikTok to be sold entirely to a U.S. company.
这笔交易仍需得到美国监管机构的正式批准，但特朗普周六告诉记者，他已“原则上”同意这个协议，并给予了祝福，不过这仍未达到特朗普最初提出的将TikTok完全出售给一家美国公司的要求。
fall short
表示“未达到数量（或要求）；达不到，缺乏”，英文解释为“to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment”举个🌰：
August car sales fell short of the industry's expectations.
8月汽车销量未达到业界的期望。
📺美剧《警察世家》（Blue Bloods）中的台词提到：but they still fall short of the mayor's cost- reduction targets. 但还是不能满足市长削减预算的目标。
Trump said the new entity would likely be incorporated in Texas and include a “$5 billion contribution” for a “large fund” for the “education of American youth,” but it's unclear where exactly the money is going because both Oracle and Walmart referred to it as “5 billion in new tax dollars to the U.S. Treasury.”
特朗普表示，新公司可能会在德克萨斯州注册成立，并包括为“美国青年教育”提供一笔“50亿美元捐款”的“大基金”，但目前还不清楚这笔钱的具体用途，因为甲骨文和沃尔玛都将其称为“给美国财政部带来50亿美元的新税收”。
incorporate
1）表示“注册成立”，英文解释为“to create a legally recognized company”举个🌰：
The company was incorporated in 2020.
这家公司成立于2020年。
2）常见含义，表示“包含；使并入”，英文解释为“If one thing incorporates another thing, it includes the other thing. If someone or something is incorporated into a large group, system, or area, they become a part of it.”举个🌰：
The new cars will incorporate a number of major improvements.
这种新型汽车将包含许多重大的改进。
🎬电影《草叶》（Leaves of Grass）中的台词提到：We've been wanting to incorporate more philosophy into the curriculum. 我们一直很想在课程中增加更多的哲学课程。
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Saturday night he will delay for a week restrictions set to take effect Sunday that would have banned the app from the App Store and the Google Play Store.
商务部长威尔伯·罗斯（Wilbur Ross）周六晚间表示，他将把定于周日生效的限制措施推迟一周，该措施将禁止该应用在App Store和Google Play应用商店内上架。
In its press release, Oracle said it will “combine its secure cloud technology with continuous code reviews, monitoring, and auditing to provide unprecedented assurance that U.S. TikTok user data is private and secure.” Earlier this week Bloomberg had reported that Oracle will get full access to TikTok's source code and updates to ensure the platform's Chinese parent cannot add any security backdoors to access data from the app's U.S. users.
甲骨文在新闻稿中表示，它将“将其云安全技术与持续的代码审查、监控和审计相结合，为美国TikTok用户数据的私密性和安全性提供前所未有的保证。”本周早些时候，彭博社曾报道，甲骨文将获得TikTok源代码和更新的全部权限，以确保该平台的中国母公司无法添加任何安全后门来获取该应用的美国用户数据。
audit
1）表示“查…的账目；审计；稽核”，英文解释为“to make an official examination of the accounts of a business and produce a report”；
2）还有另一个含义，表示“旁听（大学课程）”，英文解释为“to attend a course at college or university but without taking any exams or receiving credit”举个🌰：
As a senior citizen, he is allowed to audit university classes.
作为一个老年人，他得到准许可以旁听大学的课程。
🎬电影《美丽心灵》（A Beautiful Mind）中的台词提到：I was wondering if I might audit your course. 我想知道我能不能旁听你的课程。
The Oracle proposal, which was first announced last week, faced pushback from Republican lawmakers including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) who wrote an open letter to the Treasury Department calling for it to reject the deal on national security grounds. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a group of other Republican lawmakers had also written to Trump asking him to reject any deal that would allow “China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based version of TikTok.”
甲骨文的提议在上周首次公布，但遭到共和党议员的反对，其中包括参议员乔希·霍利（Josh Hawley），他给财政部写了一封公开信，呼吁财政部以国家安全为由拒绝这项交易。参议员马可·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）和其他一些共和党议员也曾写信给特朗普，要求他拒绝任何允许“以中国为总部或控制的实体保留、控制或修改操作任何美国版TikTok的代码或算法”的交易。
pushback
表示“（对政策、规范等的）抗拒、反对；（对改变、计划等的）消极的回应”，英文解释为“Pushback is a negative response to a change or a plan, often a refusal to accept it.”
📺美剧《纸牌屋》（House of Cards）中的台词提到：Did you sense any pushback, any fallout from the education battle? 教育法案之争有没有带来 什么阻力和影响？
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