Trump says he signed an executive order to keep TikTok running for 75 more days, as “the deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”
It was already dubious as hell that Trump had just decreed that TikTok could carry on, but this deadline is explicitly in legislation with no mechanism for the President to extend it. — He's just un...
Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27; sources: Zuckerberg, who has had a strained relationship with Trump, initiated the meeting
months after the president-elect's jail threat to Meta boss CBS News : Zuckerberg meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago Will Potter / Daily Mail : Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg ‘grateful for invitation’ to make...
Elon Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” on X and deleted the false claim after it garnered 34M+ views, claiming it was a “joke”
which he made after the second apparent assassination attempt on former Pres. Trump — Musk, who owns the platform, responded to a user who asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” … Ben Herrera / ...
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”
TIKTOK IS LESS OF A DANGER TO THE USA THAN META (FACEBOOK!), WHICH IS A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk : Trump's ex-treasury secretary is trying to buy TikTok amid ban threat Mo...
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
but contexts are different! https://www.bloomberg.com/... Luca Hammer / @luca : About 20% of the Japanese population use Twitter. Compared to 22% in the USA, 12% in Brazil and 5% in Germany. (Japan an...
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company's total revenue — When Yu Sasamoto joined Twitter Inc. as head of Japan in 2014 … Tweets: @richbtig , @hamburger , @luca , and @selinawangtv Tw...
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund to invest ~$500M in Baidu's Zuoyebang, an online education startup in China that has already raised more than $500M in funding
Selina Wang / Bloomberg :
SoftBank's Vision Fund has already committed $65B; Masayoshi Son says that he plans to raise a new $100B fund every two or three years and spend ~$50B per year
Masayoshi Son http://www.bloomberg.com/... Sarah G McBride / @mcbridesg : Ask SoftBank billionaire Masa re his $117mn house and he will parry w/ his Uniqlo attire. W @Selina_y_wang @pelstrom http://ww...
Steve Ballmer says he sold his stake in Twitter because he no longer wants to be an investor; Ballmer bought a 4% stake in October 2015
Selina Wang / Bloomberg :
Ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, who resigned after harassment allegations, raises $50M for Figure, which plans to use blockchain tech in approving home-equity loans
Selina Wang / Bloomberg :