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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 …
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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft acquiring TikTok lets it access younger users growing up with iOS and Android, expand AR and Xbox offerings, and collect data — At first glance, a Microsoft acquisition of TikTok seems a little unusual. Microsoft has spent years walking back consumer plays like the Groove Music service …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
How ByteDance tried to cross the US-China internet divide with TikTok, offering appeasements to both sides that were undermined by the geopolitical reality — The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, dreamed of building a global tech company based in China. Then the geopolitical reality set in.| Aime Williams / Financial Times: |
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Google announces the $349 Pixel 4A, available for pre-order on August 20, $499 Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 5, coming later in fall — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. — Google is officially announcing three Pixel phones today.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixel 4A review: for $349, it sports 128GB storage, decent battery life, 5.8" 1080p screen, and a flagship-tier camera, great at photos but mediocre for video — Stripped to just the phone essentials, but it gets them right — If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will invest $450M in smart home security company ADT, which will sell and install Nest smart home products, for a 6.6% stake — Google is investing $450 million in ADT to acquire a 6.6% stake in the Florida-headquartered firm that provides security and smart home solutions, the two said today.| New York Times: |
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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap says it's working on a feature that will let users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok's app, coming to English-language markets this fall — Snapchat is taking aim at TikTok. The company announced today it will begin testing a new feature that lets Snapchat users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok's app.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces partnerships with six more banks to offer digital checking and savings accounts to Google Pay users in the US, starting next year — Google is expanding its plans to offer digital banking services in the U.S. The company announced today it's partnering with half a dozen …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple faces a $1.4B lawsuit from Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology, a Chinese AI firm that was recently awarded a patent for a voice assistant similar to Siri — Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology's suit could prevent Apple from selling many of its products in China
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Sources: after suffering a cyberattack that led to service outages, Garmin paid a “multi-million dollar” ransom to hackers using an intermediary called Arete IR — The smartwatch maker had been targeted by ransomware which some researchers believe is created by sanctioned criminals.| Reuters: |
Report: Apple removed 26K+ games from its Chinese app store on Saturday, about a month after a deadline for developers to have a government-issued game license — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc AAPL.N removed 29,800 apps from its Chinese app store on Saturday, including more than 26,000 games …
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