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Trump signs an executive order to block all transactions with ByteDance and Tencent starting Sept. 20, just 5 days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire TikTok — Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire the company — President Trump has signed a new executive order …
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As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming — The US tech company hopes its connections will help it navigate storm safely — More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft … | Bloomberg: |
Should Trump's EO ban WeChat from the Chinese App Store, the ramifications would be huge as the app is a communication and transaction cornerstone — - U.S. companies from Apple to Walmart rely on Tencent's WeChat — Banning WeChat, the world's most-used messaging app … | BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set “a really bad long-term precedent”, arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees Thursday that banning TikTok in the United States would set “a really bad long-term precedent.”| Wall Street Journal: |
Tencent stock, which had a market capitalization of $687B on Thursday, plunged 10%+ after Trump's ban on WeChat — Just before the news, Tencent shares were trading near a record high — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY .17% plunged as much as 10% on Friday, hours after President Trump signed …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines and will not work on iOS, as Apple cannot review each game offered — New cloud gaming services from Google and Microsoft won't work on iOS — Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Facebook slams Apple's App Store policies, launches Facebook Gaming on iOS without the app's mini games feature to pass the App Store's strict approval policies — Facebook is not happy with the months of rejections it has faced — Facebook is joining Microsoft in condemning Apple's App Store policies today.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel is investigating a leak of 20 GB of documents, some confidential, possibly from an internal source accessing its Resource and Design Center — Leak confirmed to be authentic. Many files are marked “confidential” or “restricted secret.” — US chipmaker Intel is investigating … | BuzzFeed News: |
Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
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Uber Q2: revenue of $2.2B, down 29% YoY, gross bookings of $10.2B, down 35%, net loss of $1.8B; mobility gross bookings fell 73% but delivery grew 113% YoY — “Our team continues to move at Uber speed to respond to the pandemic's impact on our communities and on our business …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting — Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
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TikTok launches its first TV app, called More on TikTok, on Amazon Fire TV devices, featuring curated video playlists and compilations from its mobile app — More on TikTok will be free and view-only at launch — TikTok is launching its first TV app, called “More on TikTok,” on Amazon Fire TV devices today (via Business Insider).| Axios: |
Report: average congressional district now has about 400 high-tech startups employing around 3.4K workers, with average annual wages of ~$79K — The technology sector increasingly underpins the U.S. economy, with signs of its growth becoming more woven into local economies far outside iconic innovation hubs …
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T-Mobile reports total Q2 revenue of $17.7B, up 30.5% YoY, adding 1.25M customers to reach 98.3M total, claims to be the second largest US wireless provider — After finalizing its merger with Sprint in the second quarter and posting solid customer growth, T-Mobile says it has officially surpassed AT&T in the wireless market.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher says security vulnerabilities in satellite-based Internet services, some known for over ten years, are threatening the safety of ships and planes — Attacks that worked 10 years ago have only gotten worse despite growing use. — More than a decade has passed since researchers …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Analysis of hundreds of pages of documents from Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google released by the House antitrust committee and what they reveal — - Following last week's grilling of the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet, the House Judiciary Committee released … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
DOJ asks court to block California net neutrality law despite FCC's attempt to preempt state laws being overturned in October 2019 — DOJ and ISPs sue Calif. despite court vacating FCC's bid to preempt state laws. — The Trump administration and broadband industry are resuming their fight … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google has partnered with India's state of Maharashtra to offer its education offerings to 23M students and teachers for free — Google has partnered with one of the largest states in India to provide its digital classroom services to tens of millions of students and teachers … | Financial Times: |
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation — Acquisition of Ellie Mae for $11bn moves NYSE-owner deeper into home loan technology — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange …
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Troy Hunt says he will be open sourcing the Have I Been Pwned code base — Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public … | Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $467.4M, up 16% YoY, paying users up 1.4M YoY to 15M, as CFO Ajay Vashee plans to step down in September — Dropbox Inc. reported revenue that beat analysts' estimates, benefiting from increased demand for cloud software amid a shift to working from home due to the coronavirus.| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook extends its work from home policy until July 2021, as well as giving employees an additional $1,000 for home office needs — - Facebook also expects to have up to 50% of its workforce permanently working remotely within five to ten years. — Got a tip?Sponsor Posts
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