Microsoft launches it’s Microsoft Duo for preorder, Uber threatens to shutdown in California and TokTok and Facebook accused of stealing user info without telling them.
A scammer told Business Insider he cashed in selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels just hours after it launched. Is the arrival and success of scammers a sign of a platform’s success?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Lamarr Wilson, Roger Chang, Joe
Mulan’s got a plan: pay for it AND Disney+. Lots of personnel shakeups are the media conglomerates embrase streaming. Tenet gets a release plan and Fargo is coming back in September! All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Lamarr Wilson.
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Sources have said TikTok’s separation from ByteDance could take over a year. Well beyond Trump and Microsoft’s Sept. 15 timeline. What will happen next as Microsoft continues to negotiate a transition.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Rob DeMillo, Roger Chang, Joe
Amazon is reportedly in talks to turn closed Sears and JC Penney stores into distribution hubs, Ming-Chi Kuo analyzes the impact of a WeChat ban on iPhone shipments, and E Ink Corporation shows off a foldable e-reader.
Microsoft is exploring buying TikTok from ByteDance, President Trump signs executive orders that will ban all transactions with ByteDance and WeChat, and Google announces the Pixel 4a.
The POTUS signed two executive orders Thursday under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act forbidding transactions with TikTok owner Bytedance and any transactions with Tencent related to their super app WeChat. Are the orders legal and what will the repercussions be for the tech economy?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annie Gaus, Roger Chang, Joe
President Trump signed two Executive Orders banning transactions with ByteDance and WeChat as of September 20th, the US Department of Justice files amended complaints seeking to overturn California’s net neutrality law, and Have I Been Pwned is going open source.