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U.S. Investigates TikTok for Allegedly Violating Agreement to Protect Child Privacy

Jul 8, 2020 · 12:08am PDT
As the Trump administration says it is considering banning TikTok, U.S. officials are looking into whether TikTok broke a 2019 agreement on protecting children's privacy.
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E-Commerce Startup Verishop Launches New Social App

Jul 7, 2020 · 4:11pm PDT
The app combines influencer content with shopping features.
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Zoom, ServiceNow Form Subscription Software Pact

Jul 7, 2020 · 2:10pm PDT
The two subscription software providers, whose businesses have continued to grow amid the pandemic, are now using each other's products.
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Facebook Fails to Temper Ad Boycott Organizers

Jul 7, 2020 · 1:23pm PDT
"Company’s leaders delivered the same old talking points to try to placate us without meeting our demands," said one of the boycott organizers.
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Walmart Set to Launch Rival to Amazon Prime This Month

Jul 7, 2020 · 10:25am PDT
Walmart is preparing to launch Walmart+, its alternative to the Amazon Prime membership service, later this month.
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Uber Launches Grocery Delivery, Completes Partial Acquisition of ‘Cornershop'

Jul 7, 2020 · 9:52am PDT
Cornershop is a Latin American version of Instacart that recently expanded to the U.S., where it is facing resistance from grocers.
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Alphabet’s Loon Launches First Commercial Service in Kenya

Jul 7, 2020 · 7:36am PDT
Loon’s 35 high-altitude balloons will be able to beam a 4G LTE network connection across a nearly 31,000-square-mile area, including Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
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Magic Leap Names Microsoft Executive as New CEO

Jul 7, 2020 · 6:46am PDT
Magic Leap named Peggy Johnson, a prominent Microsoft executive, as its new CEO, as the struggling augmented reality startup plots a new business direction.
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Seattle Council Passes New Tax Aimed at Amazon

Jul 7, 2020 · 6:26am PDT
Seattle's city council on Monday passed a new law to fund affordable housing that is aimed at the city's biggest employers, including Amazon.
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Palantir Files for IPO

Jul 7, 2020 · 12:55am PDT · 1 comment
Palantir, co-founded by the Peter Thiel, didn't reveal any financial details or disclose what valuation it is seeking in its filing for a public stock offering.
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TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong as Pompeo Says U.S. Might Ban the Video-Sharing App

Jul 6, 2020 · 8:39pm PDT
The Chinese-owned app's decision to pull back from Hong Kong comes as Facebook and WhatsApp said they would suspend user data requests in the Chinese territory.
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Big Tech’s Antitrust Hearing Set for July 27

Jul 6, 2020 · 4:23pm PDT
The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will testify before a House panel amid inquiries into how the companies use their market power.
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Clearview AI Stops Selling Facial Recognition in Canada

Jul 6, 2020 · 2:39pm PDT
Clearview, which has provided its facial recognition software to more than 600 law enforcement agencies in the U.S., pulls out of the Canadian market.
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Tech Startups, VC Firms on List of PPP Recipients; a16z, Bird Deny Applying

Jul 6, 2020 · 1:44pm PDT
The list included venture firms Index Ventures and Foundation Capital, which both say they should not have been included on the list.
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Disney Plus Downloads Spike After Hamilton Release

Jul 6, 2020 · 11:23am PDT
The app was downloaded more than 250,000 times in the U.S., according to an analytics company.
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Quibi’s Test Arrives as Free Trials Expire

Jul 6, 2020 · 9:59am PDT
The service could face major subscriber churn in the coming days
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Facebook, WhatsApp Suspend User Data Requests in Hong Kong

Jul 6, 2020 · 7:55am PDT
The decision comes after China passed a national security law for Hong Kong that broadened the powers of mainland Chinese authorities in the city-state.
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China’s Homegrown Rival to Intel Seeks to Raise $7.5 Billion From Domestic IPO

Jul 5, 2020 · 10:57pm PDT
SMIC is benefitting from the U.S.-China tech rivalry and its domestic IPO will be the biggest in a decade.
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Indian Startups Boom After Government Bans TikTok and Dozens of Other Chinese Apps

Jul 5, 2020 · 10:20pm PDT
TikTok was among 59 Chinese apps banned by the Indian government after deadly border skirmishes with China.
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Uber to Acquire Postmates for About $2.6 Billion

Jul 5, 2020 · 8:48pm PDT · 3 comments
But Postmates wasn't Uber's first choice, and DoorDash is still No. 1