Sources: Microsoft, which was in advanced talks to buy the US operations of TikTok, has paused negotiations after Trump said on Friday that he opposes the deal
Talks aren't believed to be dead, but the companies are trying to get clarity on White House's stance
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...
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 …
Profile of Netflix's Bela Bajaria, who is leading the company's content growth outside of the US as its VP of local language originals
She relished the development process and reading the latest drafts of scripts, which she calls the most formative part of her early Hollywood education.
Facebook complies with an order by the Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of President Bolsonaro, says it will appeal the order
Facebook has complied with an order by Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
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 …
Sources: Apple told some landlords of UK stores it wants rent reduction of up to 50% and a rent-free period, offering to extend leases by a few years in return
Apple is pushing for huge rent reductions across its UK stores despite its sales soaring to new heights during the lockdown.
Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay … Source: Cyber R&D Lab .
Acquiring TikTok would be a big bet for Microsoft in the consumer social media space that could bring content moderation and other regulatory risks
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @mims , @gordonhoulden , @wsjbusiness , @johnbiggs , @isadwatson , and @prosaicview Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Very excited for tighter integratio...
Several pro sports teams, including Mets and the LAFC, are testing facial-recognition to make entry into stadiums as touchless as possible during the pandemic
Los Angeles Football Club wants to ‘move everything to face,’ while the New York Mets are testing system on players and staff
IBM report: in 2020, the average data breach costs companies $3.86M to remedy, up 1.5% YoY; “mega” breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost up to $392M
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
AI-generated “textfakes”, masked as regular chatter on Twitter and Facebook, can be potentially far more subtle and sinister than deepfake videos or audiofakes
Synthetic video and audio seemed pretty bad. Synthetic writing—ubiquitous and undetectable—will be far worse. Tweets: @macaesbruno , @wired , @fpmarconi , and @frankpasquale Tweets: Bruno Maes / @mac...
Ad analytics platform Pathmatics: Facebook's top 100 advertisers spent $221.4M from July 1 through July 29, down 12% YoY from the $251.4M they spent in 2019
Major advertisers on Facebook reduced their spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform's revenue.
A look back at the rise of the custom ringtone industry, which had sales of $1.1B at its peak in 2007 before sales shrunk by 97% in the following decade
Before the iPhone, Venmo, or Spotify, there were ringtones. You might remember them fondly as those lo-fidelity sounds we used …
Officials say the Trump admin is withholding $20M approved by Congress for the Open Technology Fund, forcing the fund to halt 49 of 60 internet freedom projects
The Trump administration is withholding $20 million in funding approved by Congress for a U.S. Internet freedom organization … Tweets: @hsu_spencer and @evacide Tweets: Spencer Hsu / @hsu_spencer : NE...
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
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @nxthompson , @quinnypig , @erikbryn , and @paul_scharre Tweets: @nxthompson : It may seem like AI is all the rage. In fact, only around 9% of US companies use any kind ...
Berlin-based Everphone, which sells a “mobile as a service” device rental package to businesses, raises ~$40M Series B led by Signals Venture Capital
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Q&A: Niantic COO Megan Quinn on plans to open up tech that powers Pokémon Go to other developers, working with Qualcomm on AR reference hardware, and more
Janko Roettgers / Protocol : Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @ashleymayer , @kirstenagreen , and @mgsiegler Tweets: Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker : 1) @NianticLabs is super interesting and this is a good intervi...
Vertex, which provides tax software for companies in more than 19,000 jurisdictions globally, raised $401M in its Nasdaq IPO on Tuesday at a valuation of $3B
Luisa Beltran / Barron's Online :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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