ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang’s decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft Corp in favour of a partnership with Oracle Corp was the culmination of pressure from the Beijing-based firm’s investors as it searched for a deal to appease the United States and China, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
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