i'm chris colburn berlin welcome to the program the race is on for a tick tock and with oracle there seems to be another contender willing to take over the video services operations in the u.s. canada australia and new zealand according to a financial times a poor of the enterprise software giant has have preliminary talks with tick tocks chinese parent company by stance u.s. president donald trump has threatened to ban the tick-tock app in the united states over spying allegations if by dan's retains ownership microsoft and twitter are also interested in acquiring parts of the company. let's bring in our new york correspondent host. of hostilities what would oracle a business software companies see in a video app beloved by teenagers. out sea. creatures and even at 1st sight that there are there are not many events in ages between oracle antidote it's whoever ends up buying the u.s. operations will gain access to around $100000000.00 users a data in oracle's a case of by putting tick tocks data out when it severs the company might be probably able to open doors to new businesses in