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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 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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% …
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
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.
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| Washington Post: |
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
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| New York Times: |
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.| Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press: |
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 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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.”
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
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
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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 — With expensive data and tech heavy hitters, Hawkfish is backing the former mayor's promise to take on Donald Trump.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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