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Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expecting it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft — Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app's U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% …
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Source: TikTok will sue the Trump administration as soon as Tuesday over the executive order banning the service — TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration, challenging the president's executive order banning the service from the United States. — The video-sharing app hugely popular … | Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The language in Trump's EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China — The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump administration.
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Huawei says that production of its high-end Kirin smartphone chips will stop Sept. 15 and, more broadly, its smartphone production has “no chips and no supply” — BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions …
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A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei's 5G phones — Smartphone chip maker warns of potentially losing billions of dollars in sales because of export limits
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| Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple files a notice of opposition with USPTO against a startup trying to trademark a logo which resembles a pear for its recipe search app called Prepear — Prepear is a meal planner and grocery list app that helps people discover recipes and more. It's a spin off from the founders …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Toronto-based Thriver, formerly known as Platterz, raises $33M Series B to expand beyond a B2B marketplace for corporate meal plans to virtual wellness programs — Thriver said it has raised $33 million in a second round of funding as it moves beyond corporate food to the business of virtual health and wellness.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China — Trump's ban could have far-reaching consequences for Apple — President Trump's executive order banning WeChat …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history — The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs's creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history
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Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric “more understandable” — Whatever they're called, this is really going to mess with the ratio — In a move that may forever change what it means … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Simon Property, the biggest mall owner in the US, and Amazon explored turning stores before occupied by J.C. Penney and Sears into fulfillment centers — Hookup between Simon Property Group, Amazon would show how retail and logistics are converging more rapidly
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Silverfort raises $30M Series B for its multi-factor authentication tech that can help enterprises secure their data on premises and in the cloud — “The funds that invested realized that the pandemic forced many organizations to shift to a work from home model and to do that …
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