Monthly Archives: August 2020

Trump approves of Oracle’s attempt to buy TikTok

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced support for Oracle Corp. to buy the US operations of TikTok, adding a fresh wrinkle to the offering for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Oracle ORCL, + 2.20% is a new contractor in the negotiations for TikTok, whose owner ByteDance Ltd. a fall deadline for …

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Perimeters of lightning fires, San Francisco Bay Area

About 20 separate lightning-sparking wildfires that burned this week in the East Bay and near the San Antonio Valley have been consolidated into one management complex by the California Department of State Forest Management and Fire Protection. As of Tuesday afternoon, the fires of the SCU Lightning Complex had consumed …

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