TikTok owner ByteDance has accused Facebook of plagiarism and smears, and said it faced “complex and unimaginable difficulties” as it worked to grow into global company.

US President Donald Trump agreed to allow Microsoft to negotiate the acquisition of popular short-video app TikTok if it could secure a deal in 45 days, three people familiar with the matter said.

Telkom has branched into the competitive space of financial services by launching a life insurance business that it said will initially sell funeral insurance.

President Donald Trump will take action shortly on Chinese software companies that are feeding data directly to the Beijing government, posing a risk to US national security, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said.

Bitcoin reminded investors of both its promise and peril in trading this weekend. The world’s largest cryptocurrency rose to $12 112, its first foray above $12 000 since August 2019, before plunging.

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would sign an executive order as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok in the US, ratcheting up the pressure on the popular short-video app’s Chinese owner to sell it.

Apple surged over 10% to a record high on Friday after reporting blockbuster quarterly results, helping the iPhone maker eclipse Saudi Aramco to become the world’s most valuable publicly listed company.

The alleged mastermind behind the 15 July “hack” of Twitter accounts of business titans, celebrities and a former president didn’t need sophisticated hacking tools to pierce the company’s security system.

As Covid-19 has frozen the international travel on which they once thrived, double-decker, four-engine planes like the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 are more likely to be found in storage than soaring through the skies.

Rob Shuter, the outgoing president and CEO of MTN Group, will join BT Group as CEO of the British company’s Enterprise unit and will become a member of BT’s executive committee.