Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

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• Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

  Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner pitched buying or carving out a stake in TikTok's European operations over lunch with the US ambassador to France, citing the US TikTok deal as a model.

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  Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud security startup Upwind for nearly $4 billion, The Information reported on 22 October.

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• Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

  Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner pitched buying or carving out a stake in TikTok's European operations over lunch with the US ambassador to France, citing the US TikTok deal as a model.

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• Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

  Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner pitched buying or carving out a stake in TikTok's European operations over lunch with the US ambassador to France, citing the US TikTok deal as a model.

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• Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

  Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner pitched buying or carving out a stake in TikTok's European operations over lunch with the US ambassador to France, citing the US TikTok deal as a model.