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France’s Iliad bids for Polish mobile phone operator Play
PARIS (Reuters) - French telecoms group Iliad said in a statement on Monday it was launching a bid for Polish mobile phone operator Play . Ilia said it would launch a public offer at 39 zlotys per sha...
Sep 21, 2020
ByteDance says TikTok Global plans public offering
(Reuters) - China's ByteDance said on Monday that TikTok Global will launch a public offering of shares to enhance the corporate governance structure and transparency for the firm that will control th...
Sep 20, 2020
U.S. judge blocks Commerce Department order to remove WeChat from app stores
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for...
Sep 20, 2020
Facebook tells Irish court that probe threatens its EU operations – newspaper
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook has told Ireland's High Court it cannot see how its services could operate in the European Union if regulators freeze its data transfer mechanism, the Sunday Business Post ...
Sep 20, 2020
China’s ByteDance seeks $60 billion TikTok valuation in U.S. deal: Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - China's ByteDance Ltd is seeking a valuation of $60 billion for TikTok as Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc take stakes in the short-video app's business to address U.S. security concerns, Bloom...
Sep 20, 2020
Hackers leak personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police on weekend of protests
(Reuters) - Anonymous hackers leaked the personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police officers in retaliation for a crackdown on street demonstrations against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, as pr...
Sep 20, 2020
EU seeks new powers to penalize tech giants: FT
(Reuters) - The European Union wants to arm itself with new powers to penalize big technology companies, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The proposed plan includes forcing tech giants to break...
Sep 20, 2020
ByteDance says not aware of $5 billion education fund in TikTok deal
NINGBO, China (Reuters) - TikTok owner Bytedance said in a social media post on Sunday that it was the first time it had heard in the news it was setting up a $5 billion education fund in the United S...
Sep 19, 2020
Trump says he is approving TikTok Oracle deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will approve a deal that will allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States after threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app in Augu...
Sep 19, 2020
TikTok says it already committed to government oversight of U.S. data security
(Reuters) - Video-sharing app TikTok said on Saturday it has already committed to the U.S. government oversight of data security in the country, and that it was "disappointed" by the Trump administrat...
Sep 19, 2020
