After Satya Nadella and Trump spoke, Microsoft says it will continue discussions to explore a TikTok acquisition in US, ending on Sept. 15 if no deal is reached
Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J. Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions …
Google announces the $349 Pixel 4A, available for pre-order on August 20, $499 Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 5, coming later in fall
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. — Google is officially announcing three Pixel phones today.
Sources: Microsoft and ByteDance hoped to have broad strokes of a TikTok deal by Monday, but then Trump's comments led them to seek clarity from the White House
Trump Deletes TikTok Ivan Mehta / The Next Web : Microsoft might buy TikTok — here's what's going on Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : It's official: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok's US ope...
Profile of Twitter hack mastermind Graham Clark, a troubled teen who allegedly went from scamming on Minecraft to joining hacker forum OGUsers and SIM swapping
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Pixel 4A review: for $349, it sports 128GB storage, decent battery life, 5.8" 1080p screen, and a flagship-tier camera, great at photos but mediocre for video
but the price difference there is V A S T) https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Here is my Pixel 4A review. TLDR: it's a $349 phone that let me take photos of ...
Sources: behind TikTok's progress toward making a Microsoft deal, with weeks of talks that included US officials, nearly derailed by Trump's public opposition
Covert talks began weeks ago. After the software giant's CEO and Trump spoke Sunday, Microsoft said an agreement could include …
Microsoft acquiring TikTok lets it access younger users growing up with iOS and Android, expand AR and Xbox offerings, and collect data
At first glance, a Microsoft acquisition of TikTok seems a little unusual. Microsoft has spent years walking back consumer plays like the Groove Music service …
Sources: President Trump gave Microsoft only 45 days to negotiate its acquisition of TikTok
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days ...
Mike Pompeo suggests US will take action in the coming days against more Chinese software companies that it perceives as a risk to national security
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Google says it will invest $450M in smart home security company ADT, which will sell and install Nest smart home products, for a 6.6% stake
Google is investing $450 million in ADT to acquire a 6.6% stake in the Florida-headquartered firm that provides security and smart home solutions, the two said today.
Apple faces a $1.4B lawsuit from Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology, a Chinese AI firm that was recently awarded a patent for a voice assistant similar to Siri
Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology's suit could prevent Apple from selling many of it products in China
Microsoft has confirmed discussions to buy TikTok's operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but hasn't commented on its European presence
- Microsoft announced Sunday it is in discussions to buy TikTok in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Report: Apple removed 26K+ games from its Chinese app store on Saturday, about a month after a deadline for developers to have a government-issued game license
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc AAPL.N removed 29,800 apps from its Chinese app store on Saturday, including more than 26,000 games …
How ByteDance tried to cross the US-China internet divide with TikTok, offering appeasements to both sides that were undermined by the geopolitical reality
The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, dreamed of building a global tech company based in China. Then the geopolitical reality set in. Tweets: @zhonggg and @ewong Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : ...
Snapchat says it's working on a feature that will let users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok's app, coming to English-language markets this fall
Snapchat is taking aim at TikTok. The company announced today it will begin testing a new feature that lets Snapchat users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok's app.
The Content Authenticity Initiative, which includes Adobe, Twitter, and the NYT, releases a white paper detailing an open standard for media authentication
A group whose members include Adobe, Twitter and the New York Times Monday offered a plan for restoring trust in photos and video in the face of a rising tide of digital fakery.
Google debuts a Chrome extension to show how many ads are loaded on a web page, what advertisers are involved, and what user data was used for personalized ads
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A deep dive into Microsoft's work on climate change, how big a deal it is among tech companies, what influence it may have, and where it falls short
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Cellular coverage has recently transformed the Inuit community in Canada's remote Nunatsiavut, enabling them to connect and share their culture via social media
Cassandra Brooklyn / Ars Technica : Tweets: @livingstone_s Tweets: Sonia Livingstone / @livingstone_s : “Young people ... are finding Inuit peers in other communities through mutual friends on social...
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is mulling new rules around statements regarding election results including premature claims of victory
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Sources: Grab is raising $200M from South Korean private equity firm Stic Investments Inc.
Bloomberg :
Democrats offer predictions for Biden's tech policies: nothing too aggressive initially, but the relationship is likely to be less cozy than with Obama
Kyle Daly / Axios : Tweets: @brad_polumbo and @thetoddschulte Tweets: @brad_polumbo : lol Biden supporting section 230 repeal, aka the end of social media, is just a casual one-liner in this puff pie...
Former Intel executive on how Intel achieved dominance in the computer industry after pivoting from memory chips to CPUs and then lost it as smartphones emerged
Michael Bruck / LinkedIn : Tweets: @chiakokhua , @_msw_ , @jonmasters , @architect_pc , and @fpiednoel Tweets: RetiredEngineer / @chiakokhua : Interesting article by a former Intel executive, advocat...
A look at the rise of Jio, which is also a bet on tech nationalism and really one more chapter in Reliance's long history of coopetition with India's government
Byrne Hobart / The Diff : Tweets: @karthiks and @langvalcapital Tweets: Karthik / @karthiks : This is an absolutely brilliant (and free) post by @ByrneHobart in the latest edition of The Diff. About ...
Social video app Triller sues TikTok and ByteDance, claims they infringe on a patent covering a way “for creating music videos synchronized with an audio track”
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