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Microsoft says it will acquire ZeniMax Media and its game publisher Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B in cash; Bethesda develops Fallout, DOOM, Quake, and others — Iconic games portfolio, publishing expertise, and world-class talent accelerates growth in Microsoft's Gaming business
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| Financial Times: |
ByteDance asserts it will maintain majority ownership and control over TikTok Global and will not transfer source code or technology to Oracle and Walmart — Chinese company contradicts assertions of Donald Trump, Oracle and Walmart — ByteDance said on Monday that it would maintain majority ownership …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump says he has approved Oracle's bid for the US operations of TikTok “in concept” — - TikTok app store ban put on hold for a week after Trump nod — New TikTok Global to donate $5 billion to education foundation — Donald Trump gave his blessing to Oracle Corp.'s bid …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Trump says he would not approve a TikTok deal unless ByteDance ceded its control, after ByteDance said it would retain an 80% stake — President Trump on Monday said that he would not approve a deal for TikTok if its Chinese owner did not fully sell its interest in the product …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump says he wants the $5B pledged from the companies making the new US-based TikTok venture put toward teaching US children “the real history of our country” — President Donald Trump said Saturday he wants $5 billion from companies creating a new U.S.-based TikTok venture …
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| Rachel Kraus / Mashable: |
Twitter says it will investigate after users find its preview of a photo, with a Black person and a white person, more frequently displayed the white person — The first look a Twitter user gets at a tweet might be an unintentionally racially biased one. — Twitter said Sunday …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it's launching a bank under a new regulatory framework in Wyoming, reducing its reliance on third-party providers — Uniswap has officially gone live with its governance token, dubbed UNI. — One billion tokens have been minted, according to a blog post …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook estimates it has helped 2.5M people register to vote so far, up from 2M people in 2016 and 2018, as it pushes to register 4M people — The company's goal is to help 4 million people register to vote — Facebook estimates it has helped 2.5 million people register to vote … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners — The days of reposting images on Instagram might be over — Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Mobile gaming startup Playco raises $100M Series A at a $1B+ valuation led by Josh Buckley and Sequoia Capital and will launch its first game later in 2020 — Playco is a new mobile gaming startup created by Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron …
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| OneZero : |
Interviews with 36+ experts, insiders, and researchers: Facebook, Google, Lime, Zoom, and others fail to assess the risks of new products, focusing on profits — Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: inside the tech industry's decades-long failure to reckon with risk| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
As the TikTok deal and Huawei imbroglio show, US is no longer on the leading edge of technology in many key strategic markets, and is falling further behind — It used to be “easy” to tell the American and Chinese economies apart. One was innovative, one made clones.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How “Huang's Law”, gains in AI chip performance even faster than Moore's Law, moves data processing from the cloud to the edge and may explain Nvidia's Arm deal — The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law …
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