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The Tencent Holdings Ltd. WeChat and ByteDance Ltd. TikTok app icons are displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration as early as next week over the president’s executive order banning U.S.

Kodak used to be king when it came to cameras and film. In 1976, Kodak had a near monopoly of the U.S. photography market, accounting for 90% of film and 85% of camera sales, according to The Economist. But the move to digital photography in the early 2000s hit the company hard. Ironically, Kodak actually invented the

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves the Elysee Palace after a meeting with the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 23, 2018. Aurelien Morissard | IP3 | Getty Images Microsoft is signing deals with foreign governments to offer cloud-infrastructure packages similar to the bundle it assembled for the U.S. Defense Department, people familiar with the

Apple responded to Epic Games’ lawsuit accusing it of anticompetitive behavior in how it controls the App Store, telling the court that the Fortnite maker violated Apple’s rules and shouldn’t be placed back into the store temporarily while the legal battle rages.  In its filing, Apple alleges that Epic Games asked for an individual arrangement with

A photo illustration of the digital Cryptocurrency, Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) are seen on September 13 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Yu Chun Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images Over $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved from China-based digital wallets to other parts of the world in the last

A convoy of emergency vehicles drives along an emptied Interstate 80 during the LNU Lighting Complex Fire on the outskirts of Vacaville, California, U.S., August 19, 2020. Stephen Lam | Reuters Kena Hudson’s 7-year-old son Clarence has asthma that’s sometimes landed him in the hospital. Typically, when wildfire season starts in Northern California, he’ll stay

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, June 22, 2020. Brooks Kraft | Apple Inc. via Reuters On Wednesday, Apple became the first $2 trillion U.S. company.  The iPhone maker’s share price hit $466.77 around 11am ET, sending it over the mark. It’s

Pedestrians cross Herald Square in front of a Verizon Wireless store in New York. Richard Levine | Corbis | Getty Images It’s one thing for Netflix or Apple — companies that benefit from consumers shifting from cable TV to streaming — to declare an end to traditional media consumption. It’s quite another when it’s Verizon doing

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday said the company is prepared to remove any posts by President Donald Trump that violate the company’s standards.  “When the president violates our hate speech standards or gives false information about voter suppression

Google security lead Miles Taylor takes leave ahead of Presidential election. Miles Taylor, President Trump’s former homeland security chief of staff and current Google staffer who became a controversial figure within the company for his work on Trump’s child separation policies, is taking a leave from Google until after the presidential election. Taylor appeared in

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2018. Bloomberg Oracle, an enterprise software giant, is in talks to acquire social media company TikTok’s U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand assets, according to a person familiar with the matter. Oracle is working

Epic Games said on Monday that Apple has threatened to revoke its developer account, meaning Epic will no longer be able to make apps for the App Store, the only way for consumers to install software on an iPhone.  The escalation comes the week after Epic Games, makers of the popular Fortnite video game, released a

Evelyn Gosnell is considering a Covid-19 test ahead of a camping trip. Evelyn Gosnell Evelyn Gosnell and some friends are planning a camping trip next month for a birthday celebration. Gosnell, a Bay Area-based behavioral scientist in her 30s, said the group has agreed to quarantine for two weeks ahead of the trip to reduce

People walk by a T-Mobile store in San Francisco, California Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Earlier this summer, players of a T-Mobile Tuesdays giveaway contest took to Reddit to discuss a strange discovery: The company in certain weeks gave away tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars in gift cards, prizes and cash to winners. In one

Bob Iger, left, and Bob Chapek of Disney Charley Gallay | Getty Images; Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images There are Boomers, Millennials, Generation X, Y and Z. There should also be a name for “media company CEOs that took over in 2020.” I’ll call them: The Shepherds. That’s a lot of turnover

TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. Dado Ruvic | Reuters President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that will force China’s ByteDance to sell or spin off its U.S. TikTok business within 90 days.  “There is credible evidence that leads me to