Apple became the first publicly listed US company with a $2-trillion stock market value on Wednesday, as Wall Street investors put aside challenges to its iPhone ecosystem.
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Oracle has held preliminary talks with ByteDance on a potential bid for part of TikTok’s business, seeking to rival a competing bid by Microsoft, the Financial Times reported.
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Over the past several days, however, videogame developers ranging from Epic Games, Microsoft and Facebook, have ensured that Apple doesn’t dodge scrutiny over its App Store practices and policies.
Microsoft on Wednesday said the Surface Duo, its dual-screen smartphone powered by Android, will start at a price of $1 399 and arrive in stores from 10 September. It will not be sold in South Africa at launch.
Let’s be blunt. It makes no sense for Microsoft to buy TikTok. Even founder Bill Gates, who no longer has an active role, sees TikTok as a “poisoned chalice”. By Tim Culpan.
Microsoft’s bid to carve out parts of TikTok from its Chinese owner ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavour that could test the patience of US President Donald Trump.
Twitter has expressed an interest in buying video platform TikTok’s US operations, it has been reported. The video-sharing app is already the subject of takeover discussions with Microsoft.
To achieve unique results in the technology era, you can’t keep thinking about data the same old way. Instead, you need to consider the unique ways you can harness it to provide equally unique solutions to your clients. By FNB’s Mark Nasila.
The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from US digital networks and called TikTok and WeChat “significant threats”.