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Microsoft has said it was in discussions to acquire TikTok in the US

It’s the latest troll farm to be deactivated by Facebook for inauthentic behavior

Nearly eight years ago, Hamet Watt and Stacy Spikes launched MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that captured the minds and dollars of investors and brought thousands of cinephiles a too-good-to-be-true deal for all-you-can watch movie…

They say business needs certainty to succeed, but new tech startups are still getting funded aggressively despite the pandemic, recession, trade wars and various large disasters....

The company had reached an agreement with the US government for a $765 million loan

Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings — back when we used to do those in-person. The truth is, I ended up having to tear it…

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Twitter has said it’s made changes to UI with conversations in mind

The president signed an order banning transactions with TikTok parent company ByteDance

Any such deal between Twitter and TikTok would have big obstacles

The first season of “The Umbrella Academy” had its flaws, but empathetic portrayals of its seven superhero siblings (all adults bearing the emotional scars of an upbringing under their strict adoptive father Reginald Hargreeves) more than made up for its…

"This year may be the last generation of Huawei Kirin high-end chips," a Huawei executive said

TikTok, the video-sharing app that’s moved to the center of the economic conflict between the US and China, is planning to challenge the executive order issued by President Donald Trump that would force the sale or ban the service in the United States. According…

It’s not the first time Apple has pursued other fruit-like logos

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TikTok and Twitter have held talks about a potential merger, even as the video sharing company defends itself against President Donald Trump’s pressure to force the sale of the business or potentially ban it. As the…

Allen mentored other women in programming

The US hit the 5 million mark just 17 days after passing 4 million cases

Timothy Bouré and his co-founder Geoffrey Lucks were both near broke when they moved to Dallas to join the first accelerator they entered after forming VenoStent, a company that aims to improve outcomes for dialysis patients. Failed dialysis surgeries occur…

Simon is the largest owner of malls in the US

The company made the first PC laptop — the T1100— in 1985