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Source: Oracle has won the bidding for the US operations of TikTok as a “trusted tech partner”; the deal will likely not be structured as an outright sale — Deal, which is likely not to be structured as an outright sale, will face White House review
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| New York Times: |
Microsoft says ByteDance has rejected its offer to take over TikTok's US operations; Oracle is the only known remaining bidder — The move leaves Oracle as the sole known remaining bidder, as the clock ticks down on President Trump's executive order to block the app.
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| South China Morning Post: |
Source: ByteDance notified US authorities and potential bidders for TikTok US operations that it will not sell or transfer TikTok's recommendation algorithm — Chinese tech company decides not to sell or transfer code behind the popular video-sharing app, source says Decision comes …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia to buy Arm from SoftBank in a $40B deal, says it will keep Arm's HQ in UK, expand R&D facilities there, and keep Arm's open licensing business model — - Acquirer pledges to keep Arm independent to retain customers — Nvidia to build AI research facility at Arm's U.K. location
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| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Analysis of Nvidia's purchase of Arm, which will impact nearly every chip market segment, with statements from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Arm CEO Simon Segars — I talked today with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Arm CEO Simon Segars on the largest and what I consider the most important semiconductor acquisition- ever.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
US Customs seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were counterfeit Apple AirPods — Well this is awkward — In a truly bizarre situation that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, US Customs and Border Protection tonight tweeted that its officers had “recently seized 2,000 …
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| New York Times: |
Profile of Vanessa Pappas, an ex-YouTube exec and TikTok's N. America chief since 2018, who took over as interim global chief amid its geopolitical predicament — Vanessa Pappas is keeping a focus on the app's community of creators and users as it deals with pressure from President Trump, Beijing and a possible sale.
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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
Facebook says it is removing misleading posts about how Oregon wildfires were started after initially saying it was reducing the distribution of such posts — As emergency responders in Oregon struggle to contain a record 900,000 acres of wildfires across the state, local police have been fighting …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Red Ventures says it has agreed to buy CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $500M in a deal expected to close in Q4 2020 — ViacomCBS is offloading CNET Media Group in a $500 million deal with digital-marketing company Red Ventures, which announced the deal Monday.| Adriana Hamacher / Decrypt: |
A look at SushiSwap's quick, turbulent, and successful “hostile takeover” of Uniswap, a decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum — They call it “vampire mining,” the draining of an exchange's funds in an effort to siphon its liquidity to another source.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
How DeepMind worked with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to make its AI, AlphaZero, learn new variants, which could make AI chess more creative — A former world champion teams up with the makers of AlphaZero to test variants on the age-old game that can jolt players into creative patterns.| Bloomberg: |
As Amazon reportedly considers a $20B investment in Reliance's retail business, a look at the outsized influence Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani has in India — - Reliance said to be in talks to sell retail stake to Amazon — India has encouraged the development of local businesses
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