US President Donald Trump insists that any sale of TikTok include a cut for the federal government, yet that demand has baffled policy experts and lawyers.
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China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry, conferring the same kind of priority on the effort it accorded to building its atomic capability.
A group representing major Internet companies has urged a US regulator to reject a Trump administration bid to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content.
Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s seven secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has told the list of US companies keen to purchase TikTok.
China’s new rules around tech exports mean ByteDance’s sale of TikTok’s US operations could need Beijing’s approval, a Chinese trade expert told state media.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the company, less than three months after he joined the hit short-video app, and US GM Vanessa Pappas will replace him on an interim basis.
Tencent Holdings jumped the most in two weeks after White House officials are said to have reassured American businesses that a ban on its WeChat app won’t be as broad as feared.
Oracle’s bid for the US operations of TikTok received the backing of US President Donald Trump, bolstering the software maker’s attempt to derail takeover talks led by rival Microsoft.
China has denounced the US’s latest moves to curb Huawei’s access to commercially available chips, the latest blow in an increasingly tense relationship between the world’s two biggest economies.
A new US edict limiting Huawei’s access to technology is more than just an incremental measure against the Chinese giant. It threatens to kill the company, which invites retaliation from Beijing.