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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Reuters: |
Sources: President Trump gave Microsoft only 45 days to negotiate its acquisition of TikTok — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump only agreed to allow Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days … | 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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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.
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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.| 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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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 it products in China
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A deep dive into Microsoft's work on climate change, how big a deal it is among tech companies, what influence it may have, and where it falls short — The company plans to wipe out all of its carbon emissions — and keep going. — You could be forgiven for missing it, given the surplus of news …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Social video app Triller sues TikTok and ByteDance, claims they infringe on a 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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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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.| Cassandra Brooklyn / Ars Technica: |
Cellular coverage has recently transformed the Inuit community in Canada's remote Nunatsiavut, enabling them to connect and share their culture via social media — Canada's Inuit culture has come to Instagram and Facebook. — Moravian missionaries arrived in Canada in the 1700s …
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| Bloomberg: |
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