Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok
Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered
New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies
Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.
US proposes a five-part “Clean Network” plan to curb potential national security risks from China, including banning “untrusted” Chinese apps from US app stores
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TikTok threatens to sue the Trump administration over the EO barring US firms from doing business with ByteDance, saying it was issued without due process
Foto: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images; Clancy Morgan/Business Insider — TikTok has threatened to sue the Trump administration …
Should Trump's EO ban WeChat from the Chinese App Store, the ramifications would be huge as the app is a communication and transaction cornerstone
- U.S. companies from Apple to Walmart rely on Tencent's WeChat — Banning WeChat, the world's most-used messaging app …
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting
Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
Experts say “Clean Network” plan, as it stands now, is merely bluster, with no technical details, no reference to the legislative tools needed to implement it
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Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center
Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating …
Uber Q2: revenue of $2.2B, down 29% YoY, gross bookings of $10.2B, down 35%, net loss of $1.8B; mobility gross bookings fell 73% but delivery grew 113% YoY
“Our team continues to move at Uber speed to respond to the pandemic's impact on our communities and on our business …
Shares of Tencent, which had a market capitalization of $687B on Thursday, closed down 5%+ in Hong Kong after Trump's ban on WeChat
Just before the news, Tencent shares were trading near a record high — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY 0.17% plunged as much as 10% on Friday …
Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages
Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming
The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft …
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term
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Qualcomm patches six security flaws in Snapdragon DSP chip that allowed attackers to take over an Android phone without any user interaction required
Several security vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip could allow attackers to take control …
Troy Hunt says he will be open sourcing the Have I Been Pwned code base
Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turne...
Report: average congressional district now has about 400 high-tech startups employing around 3.4K workers, with average annual wages of ~$79K
The technology sector increasingly underpins the U.S. economy, with signs of its growth becoming more woven into local economies far outside iconic innovation hubs …
Leaked docs: Alphabet trains staff not to use terms like “market”, “barriers to entry”, and “network effects” in written communication to avoid antitrust issues
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating …
As the competitive pressure from the Apple's unified ecosystem grows, Microsoft and Samsung need each other now more than ever
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DOJ asks court to block California net neutrality law despite FCC's attempt to preempt state laws being overturned in October 2019
DOJ and ISPs sue Calif. despite court vacating FCC's bid to preempt state laws. — The Trump administration and broadband industry are resuming their fight …
T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Google has partnered with India's state of Maharashtra to offer its education offerings to 23M students and teachers for free
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation
Financial Times :
Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @brianweeden , @mtoecker , and @sonicwall Tweets: @brianweeden : I wonder who else is listening to unencrypted satellite internet traffic to glean sensitive inform...
Facebook extends its work from home policy until July 2021, as well as giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs
reflecting how long businesses are now expecting the pandemic to last. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook bans ads from The Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump super PAC, for repeatedly sharing content determined by fact-checkers to be false
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN :
TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app
Kim Lyons / The Verge :
A NJ police dept. filed cyber harassment charges against five Twitter users for sharing a photo seeking the identity of a masked police officer during protests
one for tweeting a photo of a masked cop, & four for retweeting the original tweet. https://www.theverge.com/... Tony Webster / @webster : Someone posted a pic of a police officer wearing Blue Lives M...
Snapchat to roll out in-app voter registration tools in September, with four new features including a Voter Registration Mini and a voter guide
Sara Fischer / Axios :
PandaDoc, which provides a fully digital sales document workflow, raises a $30M Series B extension, bringing the total raised in the round to $50M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @fleming77 Tweets: Jane Fleming / @fleming77 : PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to c...
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $467.4M, up 16% YoY, paying users up 1.4M YoY to 15M, as CFO Ajay Vashee plans to step down in September
Michael Tobin / Bloomberg :
Facebook and YouTube removed a video where Trump claims kids are “virtually immune” to COVID-19; Twitter banned @teamtrump's account until it removed the video
Bloomberg :
Twitter says it accidentally pushed incorrect iOS app release notes on Wednesday that said it would now let all users limit who can reply to their tweets
they can't Tweets: Andy Beal / @andybeal : Shame, because I can't wait for the troll filter. Maybe I will use Twitter like I did in its heyday. https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
After Cisco lawsuit, 250+ Dalit Indians from companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple came forward about discrimination by higher-caste colleagues
David Gilbert / VICE : Tweets: @krishnan and @idsnupdates Tweets: Krish Subramanian / @krishnan : The discriminatory system from India is carried over to US https://www.vice.com/... @idsnupdates : Si...
A first look at macOS Big Sur as it launches in public beta with a new Control Center, a redesigned Notification Center with widgets, more
Jason Snell / Six Colors : Tweets: @dimillian and @gregorymcfadden Tweets: Thomas Ricouard / @dimillian : Big Sur is such a leap in term of UX. I was back on Catalina for doing some stuff and it real...
Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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