President Trump says he will act as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok in the United States
- President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States. — President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters …
A Florida state attorney files 30 felony charges against a 17-year old who was arrested in Tampa in connection with the July 15 Twitter hack
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter …
Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House …
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
The discussions come as TikTok's ownership by a Chinese company is under scrutiny by the White House and lawmakers. — SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that has been under scrutiny...
Google updates its Exposure Notification API with interoperability between countries, ability for apps to work without turning on location in Android 11, more
In May, we partnered with Apple to launch the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) and made it available to public health authorities around …
Apple acquires Mobeewave, whose app lets shoppers tap their credit card or phone on a smartphone to make a payment; one source says the deal is worth ~$100M
- Apple acquires Canada's Mobeewave for about $100 million — Apple Inc. has acquired Mobeewave Inc., a startup with technology …
Profile of ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, his early decision to make TikTok an international platform, and how TikTok's fate rests on US-China relations
Zhang Yiming embodies what the United States wanted China to be. He is the founder and chief executive of a company, ByteDance …
DOJ announces charges against two other suspects in the Twitter hack, including a 19-year-old in UK and a 22-year-old in Orlando, Florida
I am employed as a Special Agent … Tweets: JadedKushner / @jarradkushner : I'm too old to understand this stuff 😂 Twitter hackers complaints... >Mason Sheppard https://www.justice.gov/... >Nima Fazeli...
In an update to the July 15 hack, Twitter says a few employees were targeted in a phone spear phishing attack, and it had since limited access to internal tools
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Microsoft to end support for all third-party Cortana skills on September 7 and drop support for the dedicated Cortana apps on iOS and Android in early 2021
Microsoft is continuing to focus its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios by phasing out Cortana Skills starting …
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become the world's most valuable company after its shares closed up 10.47%, giving it a market valuation of $1.84T
- Apple is now the world's most valuable company. — It surpassed Saudi Aramco. — Apple's strong fiscal third quarter earnings, released Thursday, boosted its stock.
Sources: ByteDance execs see acquisition by Microsoft as more viable because of management's ability to absorb company as well as ByteDance execs' prior ties
The Information : Tweets: @_danielsinclair and @ericjackson Tweets: Daniel Sinclair / @_danielsinclair : The Microsoft talks are quite interesting and complicated given Microsoft China, which has rea...
Court documents show how FBI used a leaked copy of the OGUsers forum database, user details from Discord, and data from Coinbase to track down Twitter hackers
A timeline of the Twitter hack composed from court documents published today. — After earlier today US law enforcement charged …
William English, who alongside Douglas Engelbart built the first computer with a mouse and showed it at “The Mother of All Demos”, dies at 91
He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said. Tweets: @markhachman and @tariqkrim Tweets: Mark Hachman / @markhachman : ...
Acquiring TikTok would be a big bet for Microsoft in the consumer social media space that could bring content moderation and other regulatory risks
Consumer products have been a minefield for the software giant even as Xbox has succeeded — For Microsoft MSFT .54% Corp. Chief Executive …
When companies have too many smaller teams, slicing problems too thinly, they face high coordination costs as teams become too dependent on each other
dependencies can still run rampant. Thanks @johncutlefish for passing @kislayverma's essay along: https://kislayverma.com/... Philip Paetz / @chapati23 : Can a team be too small? This blog post by @ki...
Tencent offered to buy out and take private NYSE-listed Chinese search giant Sogou for $2.1B; Tencent owns about 39% of Sogou and has majority voting power
- The WeChat operator is bidding $9 per ADS for Sohu's unit — Chinese tech firms are increasingly exploring U.S. delistings
Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition
A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now.
A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help
Kevin Collier / NBC News : Tweets: @uuallan , @kevincollier , @asis_intl , @rhifionn , and @natlvoterregday Tweets: @uuallan : I volunteered to help. I was going to sign up to poll work, but I figure...
Netflix is rolling out playback speed controls of up to 0.5x slower and 1.5x faster on Android devices and is set to begin testing the option for iOS
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a “union vulnerability index”, to predict and squash organizing
and crush — organizing efforts https://onezero.medium.com/... Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : “Thanks to a glut of tech platforms that deploy sophisticated methods for collecting and analyzing...
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature on September 28 due to lack of use and spam abuse; critics contend it will stifle accessibility
Kim Lyons / The Verge : Tweets: @mmithsgolden , @teamyoutube , @arcillamatthew , @yoongilip , @teamyoutube , @robertoblake , @realbisqwit , @jessicaootc , and @theplamzjoker Tweets: @mmithsgolden : i...
Cyrus Mistry, group product manager for Chrome OS, talks about how and why Windows apps are arriving on Chrome OS via a partnership with Parallels
Tom Warren / The Verge :
North Face and Heineken are among the companies that say they will resume Facebook ads in August, while SAP, Smucker Co., others say they will continue boycott
Wall Street Journal :
Google updates its “Why this ad” feature, now “About this ad”, to show verified names of advertisers and is testing “trust tokens” to replace 3rd-party cookies
Mike Schulman / The Keyword : Tweets: @simonjharris Tweets: @simonjharris : 1/4 Google dropped a significant update on their privacy efforts a moment ago. The 1st annoucnement is they're launching a ...
Lemonaid Health, which offers an on-demand service for accessing health care online, raises $33M Series B, bringing its total raised to $55M
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @crunchbasenews Tweets: @crunchbasenews : San Francisco-based Lemonaid Health raised an oversubscribed $33 million Series B round to develop its on-demand p...
Facebook confirms it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the US, and introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Watch
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
COVID-19 has pushed museums to improve their online offerings, including virtual tours, as they explore potential business models based on digital content
Daniel Grant / Wall Street Journal :
Pinterest closes up 36% after reporting Q2 revenue of $272M, up 4% YoY, and global MAUs of 416M, up 39% YoY
Megan Graham / CNBC : Tweets: @quinnypig , @elizluke , @vixbuyer , and @megancgraham Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : You'd really think this article would have mentioned somewhere that Pinte...
Sources: Microsoft isn't planning to fully reopen its US offices until at least January 19, 2021
Tom Warren / The Verge :
LINE MAN, a Thailand-based food delivery unit of Japanese chat app LINE, raises $110M and merges with local restaurant aggregator Wongnai
Chayut Setboonsarng / Reuters :
Adobe, a large player in facilitating online ad buying, plans to ban political ads from its Advertising Cloud product effective August 30
Wall Street Journal :
The makers of the app BlueMail say Google kicked their email app off Play Store on Friday in retaliation for cooperating with House antitrust investigation
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post : Tweets: @joshsternberg , @geoffreyfowler , @reedalbergotti , and @mhbergen Tweets: Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg : The founders of Blix, the maker of the “BlueMa...
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