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TikTok app Narinder Nanu | AFP | Getty Images TikTok, the video-sharing application owned by China-based ByteDance, on Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the company’s U.S. operations. In a blog post, TikTok claimed that the ban prevented the company from …
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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., is due to appear before a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned President Donald Trump at a dinner …
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Medications for high blood pressure could improve survival rates for people suffering from COVID-19 and reduce the severity of infection, according to new research from a team of scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK and published Monday in the Journal Current Atherosclerosis Reports, a bilingual peer-reviewed …
Read More »Microsoft says Apple’s threat against ‘Fortnite’ maker would tear up the entire video game industry
Threat of Apple Inc. to the developer account of Epic Games Inc. to withdraw would have far-reaching effects detrimental to the video game industry, said Microsoft Corp. in a court filed Sunday. Epic’s new submission comes amid a tense showdown with Apple’s AAPL, + 5.15% , which removed Epic video …
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