2020-11-23
On techmeme. more people should be talking (or at least tweeting) about this besides @paulmozur himself. Nvidia, Intel et al's questionable supply connection with Sugon 中.曙光. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
2020-10-12
Meanwhile @ritacyliao has a great piece on it already, which contains all the information you need to know about Tuber, and Qihoo 360, the notorious Chinese cybersecurity company behind it. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Tuber browser, which let Chinese users access banned services like YouTube and Facebook, has been blocked and removed from China's third-party Android stores
2020-10-11
Meanwhile @ritacyliao has a great piece on it already, which contains all the information you need to know about Tuber, and Qihoo 360, the notorious Chinese cybersecurity company behind it. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Tuber browser, which let Chinese users register and access banned services like YouTube, has been blocked and removed from China's third-party Android stores
- Service required registration with mobile phone numbers — An app backed by Chinese cybersecurity giant 360 Security Technology Inc …
2020-08-08
One way to look at how a TikTok lawsuit against US could go, and this is suggested by a lawyer acquaintance: defendant is definitely going to ask for the plaintiff's (incl. BD's) correspondence with the Chinese government to be made public, which BD can't really afford to... https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
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 …
One way to look at how a TikTok lawsuit against US could go, and this is suggested by a lawyer acquaintance: defendant is definitely going to ask for the plaintiff's (incl. BD's) correspondence with the Chinese government to be made public, which BD can't really afford to... https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
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
Welcome to the weekend. You all already know that I'm obsessive … Zane Schwartz Last / The Logic : The U.S. did not inform Canada about its new initiative to ban Chinese technolog...
2020-08-03
2 weeks ago, PingWest English edition received an op-ed submission from some1 high up at ByteDance. The piece was basically zeroed in on FB, and Zuckerberg himself, as the cause of TikTok's misery in the US. We declined to publish it. And today ByteDance launched its own attack. https://twitter.com/...
The Official Microsoft Blog
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 …
2020-06-08
Multiple internal sources confirmed to PingWest that employees who are currently in China, working on apps and services for the home market, are now largely stripped of access to “sensitive data” of ByteDance's slew of overseas products, including but not limited to TikTok.
PingWest
Sources: ByteDance has recently implemented a restriction on employees in China from accessing code bases for overseas products like TikTok
Chen Du / PingWest :
It is extremely rare for multi-national internet companies to region-lock internal code bases and data against their own engineers from one specific country market. Last time somebody did it was 10 yrs ago, at Google China. Read more: https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875
PingWest
Sources: ByteDance has recently implemented a restriction on employees in China from accessing code bases for overseas products like TikTok
Chen Du / PingWest :