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Sources: before Trump's comments, Microsoft and Bytedance hoped to have broad strokes of TikTok deal by Monday and are now seeking clarity from the White House — Talks aren't believed to be dead, but the companies are trying to get clarity on White House's stance
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US — NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House …
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| Aime Williams / Financial Times: |
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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| 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 — Constine's Newsletter #10: Triller vs Dubsmash vs Byte vs Reels, plus unintended consequences of threatening a TikTok ban
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| Michael Schuman / The Atlantic: |
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| Elaine Low / Variety: |
Profile of Netflix's Bela Bajaria, who is leading the company's content growth outside of the US as its VP of local language originals — She relished the development process and reading the latest drafts of scripts, which she calls the most formative part of her early Hollywood education.
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Netflix Media Center, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Mashable, TechRadar, Neowin, and Pocketnow
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| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Several pro sports teams, including Mets and the LAFC, are testing facial recognition to make entry into stadiums as touchless as possible during the pandemic — Los Angeles Football Club wants to ‘move everything to face,’ while the New York Mets are testing system on players and staff| 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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| 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.
Tweets: @marpeluso, @nnovick, @briancvc, @isarmatrose, @mikebutcher, @goncalotv, @implausibleblog, @eu_startups, and @julsica
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researchers describe how attackers can sidestep security features of chip-based credit and debit cards from certain banks to create counterfeit cards — Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay …
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Cyber R&D Lab. More:
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| Gil Kazimirov / OneZero : |
A look back at the rise of the custom ringtone industry, which had sales of $1.1B at its peak in 2007 before sales shrunk by 97% in the following decade — Before the iPhone, Venmo, or Spotify, there were ringtones. You might remember them fondly as those lo-fidelity sounds we used …
Tweets: @medium and @stephjrains
| New York Times: |
Ad analytics platform Pathmatics: Facebook's top 100 advertisers spent $221.4M from July 1 through July 29, down 12% YoY from the $251.4M they spent in 2019 — Major advertisers on Facebook reduced their spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform's revenue.
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WWD. Tweets: @deaneckles, @nytimesbusiness, @mattnavarra, @brendangahan, @ericschultz, @sushantsin, @tiffkhsu, and @iethics
| BBC: |
Facebook complies with an order by the Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of President Bolsonaro, says it will appeal the order — Facebook has complied with an order by Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
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