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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information 2 place · 01/19/2025 12:54 EDT

TikTok said it’s working with its service providers to restore availability of its app on Sunday. Oracle started turning TikTok servers back on morning Pacific time, according to someone with direct knowledge of the matter. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and ... Read more â€ș

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Juro Osawa @ The Information 3 place · 01/19/2025 11:30 EDT

Donald Trump said he plans to issue an executive order on Monday to delay the enforcement of the TikTok ban and bring the app back. Trump also proposed a joint venture deal for TikTok with 50% U.S. ownership to allow the app to stay in operation in the U.S. “I’m asking companies not to let ... Read more â€ș

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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan @ The Information 1 place · 01/18/2025 23:08 EDT

TikTok has stopped working in the U.S., hours before a law comes into effect banning the app unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Users of the app are now shown a pop-up message that takes them to a webpage with information about the ban and details about how to ... Read more â€ș

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Anissa Gardizy @ The Information · 01/18/2025 20:54 EDT

Leaders at Oracle, the main cloud computing provider for TikTok’s U.S. operations, have told some staff to prepare to shut down servers that host U.S. TikTok data on Saturday night as early as around 9 p.m. Eastern, in advance of a U.S. law that bans the app starting Sunday. Oracle CEO Safra Catz is expected to give the final go ahead to cut off the TikTok servers, according to a... Read more â€ș

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information 1 place · 01/18/2025 16:18 EDT

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday evening announced on social media the launch of his “official” meme token, a solana-based asset whose price jumped to $26 per token within a day, giving it a market value of $5 billion on paper. The token, called $TRUMP, is intended to be an expression ... Read more â€ș

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 01/18/2025 16:17 EDT

A message from TikTok to some sellers that use its shopping features that its app will be “suspended” at 8:30 PM Eastern Saturday, ahead of a law forcing the shutdown of the U.S. app that goes into effect on Sunday, January 19, was erroneous, according to a spokesperson. “Today, an ... Read more â€ș

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 01/18/2025 14:56 EDT

With a U.S. ban of TikTok just hours away, the company’s U.S. staff has been scrambling to contain the fallout for the millions of creators and merchants who have tied their livelihoods to the app. TikTok is considering creating a website to handle TikTok Shop returns once the company shuts down the app, managers told staff in its e-commerce division during a meeting on Friday. TikTok also wants to ensure... Read more â€ș

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Abram Brown @ The Information · 01/18/2025 10:00 EDT

Wildfire Startups Need a SpaceX Moment

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:‱ The Big Read: Sports league startups bet on selfies and shape-shifting putting greens* Power and Influence: The tech industrial complex gets ready to party over Trump‱ Media and Entertainment: Apple’s most intriguing TV show‱ Plus, our Recommendations—for deep-winter binges: A buffed-up Baldur’s Gate 3; the merry in Derry; a surreal swamp; and Baden-Baden–style bumps in the nightThe complete extent of the devastation wrought by the... Read more â€ș

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Kaya Yurieff @ The Information · 01/18/2025 08:53 EDT

TikTok on Friday night said it would be “forced to go dark” on Sunday, the deadline for a ban of the app to go into effect, unless it gets assurances from the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice. TikTok’s statement confirms reporting from The Information earlier this week that the ... Read more â€ș

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The Information · 01/18/2025 08:00 EDT

In the streaming era’s current period, deducing the whereabouts—and fate—of a favorite series is often a more complex mystery than the ones that confront the fictional investigators and detectives in many of these shows. Some shows air weekly, while others get released in a single drop. Certain episodes arrive in the evening, while others populate on landing pages as the sun comes up. It’s getting nearly impossible to predict if—let... Read more â€ș

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Nick Wingfield @ The Information · 01/18/2025 08:00 EDT

On Thursday, about 200 founders and investors tucked into seared sea bass and key lime pie at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach private club. The mood was celebratory, and the attendees talked about their hopes for a deregulatory boom in the nuclear and space industries. Each attendee received a black baseball cap emblazoned with the slogan “Make Nuclear Great Again,” courtesy of one of the startups attending, Valar Atomics. Meanwhile,... Read more â€ș

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Martin Peers @ The Information · 01/17/2025 18:00 EDT

When future historians chronicle recent events in the tech industry, they’re likely to marvel at the endurance of TikTok, which has become like a cockroach in a nuclear war: the ultimate survivor. Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law should have been the nail in the coffin for the company. After all, as we recounted in this piece today, its management had no backup plan other than the legal... Read more â€ș

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Theo Wayt @ The Information · 01/17/2025 17:57 EDT

Amazon is pausing drone deliveries to customers, a spokesperson said Friday. The pause comes after two of its aircraft crashed at a testing facility, Bloomberg reported. Two of Amazon’s newer delivery drones, known as the MK30, crashed during December test flights in Oregon, according to ... Read more â€ș

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Kalley Huang @ The Information · 01/17/2025 17:10 EDT

Meta to Break Up Civil Rights Team

Meta Platforms will break up a team that trained employees on civil rights, sought to prevent the company’s algorithms from spreading harmful or disrespectful content and helped the company develop technology to more equitably distribute ads, according to a person with direct knowledge of the ... Read more â€ș

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The Information Staff @ The Information 2 place · 01/17/2025 16:36 EDT

It’s not just Meta Platforms, Snap and Google’s YouTube that stand to benefit if TikTok shutters in the U.S. as a result of Friday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law against the Chinese-owned app. Several small social and video apps, including Flip, Clapper and Whatnot, could also come out ahead. Meanwhile, losers include logistics startups which work with TikTok Shop sellers, such as ShipBob and ShipHero, along with advertisers... Read more â€ș

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Yueqi Yang @ The Information · 01/17/2025 16:10 EDT

Crypto wallet provider Phantom said it raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm that boosted its valuation to $3 billion. Existing investors including a16z crypto and Variant also participated in the round. A competitor of Coinbase Wallet and MetaMask, Phantom ... Read more â€ș

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Jessica E. Lessin @ The Information · 01/17/2025 15:22 EDT

This week on More or Less: TikTok and the coming digital trade war. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more â€ș

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Theo Wayt @ The Information 2 place · 01/17/2025 15:01 EDT

U.S. authorities took a key step on Friday toward heavily restricting a trade rule used by e-commerce companies like Temu, Amazon and Shein to import products into the U.S. from China without paying tariffs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed rules on Friday that would bar companies ... Read more â€ș

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The Information Partnerships @ The Information · 01/17/2025 13:26 EDT

Artificial intelligence has the potential to solve the world’s problems, like climate change, plastics and even inequality, believes one of the readers of The Information. Whether it will do so depends “on the questions we ask of this tremendous power now in our hands,” says the reader. A recent survey of 108 readers of The Information (see the methodology) sheds light on where companies are in their journey to harness... Read more â€ș

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Sara Germano @ The Information · 01/17/2025 12:06 EDT

When Unrivaled, a new professional women’s basketball league, tips off tonight on TNT, fans will be introduced to a version of the sport that Alex Bazzell, one of the league’s founders, described to me as “a Broadway show on steroids.” That spectacle will feature three-player teams rather than traditional five-on-five action, Bazzell explained as we stood on the league’s gleaming new hard court in Miami last week. Viewers will see... Read more â€ș

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