“Now, as the dust settles on the weeks of drama over the social media app, investors and others are asking what it was all for. The answer? A cloud computing contract for the Silicon Valley business software company Oracle, a merchandising deal for Walmart and a claim of victory for President Trump.” NYT: ‘There’s No There There’: What the TikTok Deal Achieved. Somehow giving Larry Ellison a hosting deal will save us from China….