FILE PHOTO: The Oracle logo is displayed in an office building in Irvine, California, USA June 28, 2018. REUTERS / Mike Blake (Reuters) – Oracle Corp. has held preliminary talks with TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, and has seriously considered buying the app’s operations in the United States, Canada, Australia and …
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(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Friday that it would no longer provide data in response to requests from Hong Kong authorities following the introduction of a new national security law imposed by China. The U.S. tech giant had not produced any data since the sweeping new law …
Read More »Three more U.S. states are launching coronavirus exposure warning apps
OAKLAND, Caliph. (Reuters) – North Dakota, Wyoming and Alabama are the latest U.S. states to launch apps to warn users about potential exposure to the new coronavirus by following their conversations, state officials told Reuters on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: The 1919 mobile app, which North Dakota and South Dakota officials …
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FILE PHOTO: The 1919 mobile app, which North Dakota and South Dakota officials have asked residents to download to help with contact detection during the global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), is viewed on a phone call, US April 24, 2020. REUTERS / Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Caliph. (Reuters) – North Dakota, …
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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump has threatened to end the short video app TikTok and messaging service WeChat by the end of September on the grounds that the apps pose a national security threat in Chinese. It would mark the first time the United States has attempted to shut down …
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