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TikTok removes over 104 million videos

ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of service.

September 22, 2020
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Tesla traders bet on Musk battery pitch to spark rally

Fasten your seatbelt, because Tuesday is Tesla’s “Battery Day”, and some investors expect Chief Executive Elon Musk’s pitch on the electric car maker’s energy storage advances to re-energize its rally following a recent 21% stock…

September 21, 2020
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US court halts ban on WeChat download

A US judge on Sunday blocked the government’s ban on WeChat downloads, hours before it was due to take effect in an ongoing technology and espionage battle between Washington and Beijing.

September 21, 2020
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China launches sanctions regime after US moves on TikTok, WeChat

China on Saturday launched a mechanism that would allow it to sanction foreign companies, upping the ante in a tech war with the United States a day after Washington moved to curb popular Chinese apps…

September 20, 2020
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TikTok files petition against Trump administration

Popular video-sharing app TikTok has asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on the Chinese social media network, according to court documents filed late on Friday.

September 19, 2020
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Trump to block US downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night, a move that will block Americans from downloading the Chinese-owned platforms over concerns they pose a national security…

September 18, 2020
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ByteDance's bid to keep most of TikTok faces major hurdles

China’s ByteDance faces an uphill struggle to convince the White House to allow it to keep majority ownership of its popular short video app TikTok in the United States, according to former national security officials…

September 17, 2020
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A man wearing a face mask following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak walks past a booth of Huawei at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS)

Exclusive: Top Huawei executives had close ties to company at center of U.S. criminal case

An obscure Hong Kong-registered company stands at the center of the U.S. criminal case against China’s Huawei Technologies and its chief financial officer.

September 16, 2020
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Electric buses to take hold of public transport in capital city, save 30k barrels of fuel

In a bid to make Islamabad the first South Asian city to have an all-electric mode of public transport, saving gas emission and millions in fuel consumption, the capital city transport is set to be…

September 16, 2020
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ByteDance picks Oracle as partner to try to save TikTok U.S : sources

Oracle beat Microsoft in the battle for the U.S. arm of TikTok with a deal structured as a partnership rather than an outright sale to try to navigate geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington, people…

September 14, 2020
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microsoft says TikTok Rejected Buyout Offer

TikTok Rejected Buyout Offer: Microsoft

US tech giant Microsoft said Sunday its offer to buy TikTok was rejected, as a deadline looms for the Chinese-owned video app to sell or shut down its US operations.

September 14, 2020
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Tesla launches fast electric car charging

Managers at electric carmaker Tesla on Thursday demonstrated new supercharger equipment on a Berlin research campus, saying they were looking at more target cities to attract potential buyers worried about access to charging.

September 11, 2020
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EU urges Facebook, Google, Twitter to do more against fake news

The European Commission on Thursday urged Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter, and other tech rivals to try harder to be more effective, two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation.

September 10, 2020
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Huawei to share progress on Android rival Harmony OS

Huawei Technologies is expected to respond on Thursday to the latest salvo of US technology restrictions against it and share its progress on developing a system that is seen as its best bet to replace…

September 9, 2020
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