Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft
Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …
Source: TikTok will sue the Trump administration as soon as Tuesday over the executive order banning the service
TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration, challenging the president's executive order banning the service from the United States. — The video-sharing app hugely popular …
Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats
Even as the White House moves against the Chinese social media app, the intelligence agencies do not see it as a major issue along the lines of Huawei.
Huawei says that production of its high-end Kirin smartphone chips will stop Sept. 15 and, more broadly, its smartphone production has “no chips and no supply”
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions …
The language in Trump's EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China
The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump administration.
Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office
Trump advisers Mnuchin and Navarro fought over TikTok as Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to Trump
How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history
The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs's creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, recent House antitrust hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal
The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China
Trump's ban could have far-reaching consequences for Apple — President Trump's executive order banning WeChat …
As Zynga buys Istanbul-based Rollic Games for $168M, a look at the rapid growth of hyper-casual mobile games, where publishers may launch a new title every week
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A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei's 5G phones
Smartphone chip maker warns of potentially losing billions of dollars in sales because of export limits
Toronto-based Thriver, formerly known as Platterz, raises $33M Series B to expand beyond a B2B marketplace for corporate meal plans to virtual wellness programs
Thriver said it has raised $33 million in a second round of funding as it moves beyond corporate food to the business of virtual health and wellness.
Linux Foundation launches Open Source Security Foundation to bring some of the world's most important OSS security initiatives under one umbrella
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Reddit says it is investigating how hackers defaced more than a dozen subreddits, including some with millions of subscribers, to post pro-Trump messages
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iwoca, an online lending startup for SMBs, raises £100M to support SMBs looking for financing via the UK's Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
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Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric “more understandable”
Whatever they're called, this is really going to mess with the ratio — In a move that may forever change what it means … Tweets: @nicolasmagand Tweets: Nicolas Magand / @nicolasmagand : **distant so...
US bank regulator fines Capital One $80M over a 2019 hack that compromised personal info of ~106M card customers and applicants between 2005 and early 2019
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John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products
that's a failure. And so Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant are failures. But Face ID, plam rejection are successes. https://arstechnica.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : This long interview with two App...
Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture
tech companies did that, and they did it for profit” YES https://twitter.com/... Anthony Reinhart / @ajreinhart : “Maybe we were never meant to shout across a room of millions, and maybe the people wh...
An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden
having crashed and burned after Elizabeth Warren's blowtorch attack in the Las Vegas debate—but part of it survives as a hundred-person operation dedicated to electing Joe Biden and other Democrats. h...
Profile of Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang, from his early startup endeavors to creating a $100B+ social commerce giant successfully challenging Alibaba and JD
Turner Novak / Turner's Blog : Tweets: @alexmaleki , @lennysan , @adamdawood , @ruima , and @meysamtweets Tweets: Alex Maleki / @alexmaleki : “a digital TJ Maxx”. 5 years to $100B https://twitter.com...
How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy
Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hypervisible and @stefaniei Tweets: Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : “Increasingly, the role of spotting counterfeits is being filled by artificial...
Interview with Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson on the Facebook ad boycott, meeting with Zuckerberg, working with the company, and more
Steven Levy / Wired : Tweets: @slpng_giants Tweets: @slpng_giants : Great interview with @rashadrobinson about the #StopHateForProfit campaign. Super proud to be teamed up with @ColorOfChange and all...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.