TikTok might have restarted operations in the U.S., but investors in the appâs parent company, ByteDance, remain in the dark about its future. For those debating buying into ByteDance shares, however, it doesnât matter. Whatever happens, ByteDance stock is severely undervalued. Even if TikTok were to disappear entirely from the U.S., cutting off the appâs biggest market for advertising and a major source of its content, ByteDance should be worth... Read more âș
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President Trump on Monday revoked dozens of executive orders issued by the Biden administration including a key directive related to artificial intelligence. Bidenâs executive order on AI was issued in October 2023 and required companies developing advanced AI models to share information with ... Read more âș
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President Trump signed an executive order to delay the enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 75 days from Monday. In the order, Trump said his administration plans to find a solution âthat protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by ... Read more âș
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Donald Trump is president again, as of today! And in tech, among the most immediately affected will be viewers of the long-running drama âTikTokâBan or Not?â. Trump on Sunday promised to renew the series for an expected three months. So far, Apple and Google donât appear to be sticking around for the new season. While cloud service Oracle turned TikTok back on after a nearly 12-hour outage Sunday, the app... Read more âș
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Instagram isnât letting a good TikTok crisis go to waste. Representatives for the Meta Platformsâowned app in the last week have been contacting creators with large TikTok followings, offering cash bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 per month or even more to make short videos for Instagram Reels, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. The richest cash offers are tens of thousands of dollars more than... Read more âș
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A parade of tech luminaries were prominent amongst attendees at Donald Trumpâs presidential inauguration on Monday, signaling a major shift in relations between the tech industry and Trump for his second term. Among high level people sitting immediately behind Trump as he was sworn in ... Read more âș
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Venture capital firms have increasingly been acting like private equity firms by investing in or buying mature businesses in need of a turnaround. Now those firms are utilizing another PE strategyârolling up multiple competitors into a single company that can operate more efficiently by combining costs. Venture capital firms such as General Catalyst and 8VC are creating or investing in these types of holding companies in fields such as call... Read more âș
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Instagram is creating a competitor to ByteDanceâs video creation and editing app CapCut, called Edits, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on Sunday. The announcement came after CapCut and TikTok, the larger ByteDance-owned app, shut off services for U.S. users late Saturday. A federal law came ... Read more âș
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TikTok said itâs 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. âWe thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and ... Read more âș
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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. âIâm asking companies not to let ... Read more âș
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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 âș
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Leaders at Oracle, the main cloud computing provider for TikTokâs 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 âș
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday evening announced on social media the launch of his âofficialâ meme token, a solana-based asset whose price jumped to $26Â 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 âș
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A message from TikTok to some sellers that use its shopping features that its app will be âsuspendedâ 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. âToday, an ... Read more âș
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With a U.S. ban of TikTok just hours away, the companyâs 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 âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą 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 Trumpâą Media and Entertainment: Appleâs most intriguing TV showâą Plus, our Recommendationsâfor deep-winter binges: A buffed-up Baldurâs Gate 3; the merry in Derry; a surreal swamp; and Baden-Badenâstyle bumps in the nightThe complete extent of the devastation wrought by the... Read more âș
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TikTok on Friday night said it would be âforced to go darkâ 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. TikTokâs statement confirms reporting from The Information earlier this week that the ... Read more âș
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In the streaming eraâs current period, deducing the whereaboutsâand fateâof 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. Itâs getting nearly impossible to predict ifâlet... Read more âș
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On Thursday, about 200 founders and investors tucked into seared sea bass and key lime pie at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trumpâs 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 âMake Nuclear Great Again,â courtesy of one of the startups attending, Valar Atomics. Meanwhile,... Read more âș
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When future historians chronicle recent events in the tech industry, theyâre likely to marvel at the endurance of TikTok, which has become like a cockroach in a nuclear war: the ultimate survivor. Todayâs 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 âș
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