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Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison Kimberly White | Getty Images Approval of Oracle’s deal to become a “trusted technology provider” for ByteDance’s TikTok will be announced on Tuesday afternoon, CNBC’s Jim Cramer reported. A source familiar with the matter later confirmed to CNBC’s Eamon Javers that a decision could
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Oracle on Monday confirmed it has struck a deal with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of trendy video-sharing app TikTok, weeks after the Trump administration ordered a TikTok divestiture in the U.S. The deal proposal still needs approval from the U.S. government. “Oracle confirms Secretary Mnuchin’s statement that it is part of the proposal submitted by ByteDance
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The Purple Air air-quality map on Friday Sept. 11, 2020, shows most of the west coast with hazardous levels of pollution from wildfire smoke. Screenshot As record-breaking fires wreak havoc on the Western United States, they’re also releasing massive amounts of smoke and ash into the atmosphere, adding to the region’s health woes. To find
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Unity CEO John Riccitiello speaks onstage during Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 5, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | TechCrunch | Getty Images With Silicon Valley’s tech workers stuck inside amid the dueling crises of the coronavirus pandemic and raging wildfires across California, the industry is
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Any short-term benefit that Instagram would see from a potential TikTok ban is “greatly outweighed by the risks of a fragmented internet,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Friday.  “If we move to a place where countries start to silo internet within them, and we can’t operate in that way, I think that it’s much more
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