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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: President Trump plans to sign an order directing China's ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok — President Donald Trump plans to sign an order to direct China's ByteDance Ltd.'s to divest its ownership of the popular U.S.-based music-video app TikTok, according to people familiar …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok — The talks come as TikTok's ownership by a Chinese company is under scrutiny by the White House and lawmakers. — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to a person with knowledge …
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| Ryan Hughes / WFLA-TV: |
A Florida state attorney files 30 felony charges against a 17-year old arrested in Tampa, in connection with the July 15 Twitter hack — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A Tampa teenager is in jail, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a hack on the social media website Twitter that caused limited access …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
DOJ announces charges against two other suspects in the Twitter hack, including a 19-year-old in UK and a 22-year-old in Orlando, Florida — The arrest comes after hackers hijacked some of the most high profile accounts on the social network by leveraging an internal Twitter tool. — Joseph Cox
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia in talks to buy Arm in a cash-and-stock deal that would value it at more than the $32B SoftBank paid to buy the UK chip designer in 2016 — US chipmaker seeks cash-and-stock purchase of UK chip designer from its Japanese owner — US chip company Nvidia is in talks to buy … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to end support for all third-party Cortana skills on September 7 and drop support for the dedicated Cortana apps on iOS and Android in early 2021 — Microsoft is continuing to focus its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios by phasing out Cortana Skills starting …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become the world's most valuable company after its shares closed up 10.47%, giving it a market valuation of $1.84T — - Apple is now the world's most valuable company. — It surpassed Saudi Aramco. — Apple's strong fiscal third quarter earnings, released Thursday, boosted its stock.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the US, and introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Watch — Facebook today confirmed it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the U.S., as TechCrunch first reported …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cyrus Mistry, group product manager for Chrome OS, talks about how and why Windows apps are arriving on Chrome OS via a partnership with Parallels — Google revealed earlier this year that it's planning to support Windows applications on Chromebooks thanks to a partnership with Parallels.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix is rolling out playback speed controls of up to 0.5x slower or 1.5x faster on Android devices and is set to begin testing the option for iOS — Stream up to 0.5 times slower or 1.5 times faster — Netflix is letting people choose the speed at which they want to watch something …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature on September 28 due to lack of use and spam abuse; critics contend it will stifle accessibility — The feature, which YouTube says was underutilized, will be discontinued in September — YouTube plans to discontinue …
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Tweets: @mmithsgolden, @realbisqwit, @teamyoutube, @teamyoutube, @robertoblake, @tromano, and @hoe_doyan
| Dave Burke / The Keyword: |
Google updates its Exposure Notification API with interoperability between countries, ability for apps to work without turning on location in Android 11, more — In May, we partnered with Apple to launch the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) and made it available to public health authorities around … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acquires Mobeewave, whose app lets shoppers tap their credit card or phone on a smartphone to make a payment; one source says the deal is worth ~$100M — - Apple acquires Canada's Mobeewave for about $100 million — Apple Inc. has acquired Mobeewave Inc., a startup with technology …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, and Noyes Payments Blog
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| Caitlin Dewey / OneZero : |
A look at the “hustle economy”, where unemployed teachers, cooks, and dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans to monetize their digital offerings — Unemployed teachers, cooks, dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans — e have nothing to sell besides physical touch.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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