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After a talk between Satya Nadella and Trump, Microsoft says it will continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in US, which will wrap up by Sept. 15 — Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J. Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions …
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Sources: behind TikTok's progress toward making a Microsoft deal, with weeks of talks that included US officials, nearly derailed by Trump's public opposition — Covert talks began weeks ago. After the software giant's CEO and Trump spoke Sunday, Microsoft said an agreement could include …
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Mike Pompeo suggests US will take action in the coming days against more Chinese software companies that it perceives as a risk to national security — Pompeo vows further clampdown as ByteDance tries to salvage sale talks with Microsoft — The Trump administration has vowed to “take action” …
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Profile of Twitter hack mastermind Graham Clark, a troubled teen who allegedly went from scamming on Minecraft to joining hacker forum OGUsers and SIM swapping — The teenage “mastermind” of the recent Twitter breach, who had a difficult family life, poured his energy into video games and cryptocurrency.
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Social video app Triller sues TikTok and ByteDance, claims they infringe on patent covering a way “for creating music videos synchronized with an audio track” — Social video platform Triller has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against its biggest rival TikTok and parent company ByteDance.
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| Josh Constine / Constine's Moving Product newsletter: |
Escalating threats to ban TikTok push creators and users to apps like Triller, which has now topped the US App Store multiple times, plus Byte, Reels, others — 100 million users are at stake. Trump says he's going to ban TikTok, sending creators into a panic, begging their fans to follow them on YouTube …
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Google debuts a Chrome extension to show how many ads are loaded on a web page, what advertisers are involved, and what user data was used for personalized ads — Google has taken new steps towards its grand master plan to revamp the online advertising ecosystem.| Michael Bruck / LinkedIn: |
Former Intel executive on how Intel achieved dominance in the computer industry after pivoting from memory chips to CPUs and then lost it as smartphones emerged — Last week, Intel announced its second-quarter financial results which easily beat the analysts' consensus expectations by a handsome margin.
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is mulling new rules around statements regarding election results including premature claims of victory — We may not know the results for days, and maybe weeks. So it's time to rethink “election night.” — Picture this Thanksgiving: Turkey, football …
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| Sam Chambers / The Sunday Times: |
Sources: Apple told some landlords of UK stores it wants rent reduction of up to 50% and a rent-free period, offering to extend leases by a few years in return — Apple is pushing for huge rent reductions across its UK stores despite its sales soaring to new heights during the lockdown.
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| Byrne Hobart / The Diff: |
A look at the rise of Jio, which is also a bet on tech nationalism and really one more chapter in Reliance's long history of coopetition with India's government — Plus! Earnings, Seeing For the State, Gerontocracy, Kids' YouTube M&A, and much, much more... 10 hr … Subscribe
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
TechHub, a coworking space that was once the heart of London's start-up scene, filed for administration — Workspace was the busy centre of the UK's ‘Silicon Roundabout’ — TechHub, which for a decade was home to hundreds of start-ups at the heart of London's “Silicon Roundabout” tech scene, has filed for administration.
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