Trending Stories from reuters.com
Sumner Redstone, media mogul who headed Viacom, has died
Modern driver-assistance technology ‘far from reliable’: AAA study
Sources: TikTok's separation from ByteDance could take over a year, well beyond Trump and Microsoft's Sept. 15 timeline, as Microsoft negotiates the transition
Russian competition watchdog FAS says Apple abused its dominance of the mobile apps market and must resolve issues with iOS App Store; Apple says it will appeal
Tech giants back legal challenge to Trump’s foreign worker restrictions
Exclusive: India data-curb plan ‘anathema’, U.S. tech giants plan pushback
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
Huawei to stop making flagship chipsets as U.S. pressure bites, Chinese media say
In a memo to advertisers, TikTok says it will refund ad campaigns it can't fulfill due to a US ban and will work with influencers to migrate to other platforms
Facebook and its fact-checking partners say they are grappling with the dilemma of how to police claims about new COVID-19 vaccines that are as yet unreleased
Facebook says it removed one of the largest public QAnon conspiracy groups, with ~200K members, after repeated violations of its hate speech and other policies
Microsoft expands TikTok takeover ambitions to entire global business
Afghan all-girls robotics team designs low-cost ventilator to treat coronavirus patients
Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
U.S. steps up campaign to purge ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps
Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion
White House announces a national education partnership with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others to expand K-12 quantum information science education
Alphabet borrowed $10B in its largest ever bond issue from the corporate debt market, which it secured at its lowest-ever cost of financing
China will not accept U.S. ‘theft’ of TikTok: China Daily
U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes
The FCC will take public comment for 45 days on the Trump administration's petition for new transparency rules on how social media companies moderate content
Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push
Exclusive: Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
Facebook raises settlement to $650 million in facial recognition lawsuit
Sources: ByteDance has agreed to divest US operations of TikTok under a proposed new deal with the White House that would see Microsoft take over TikTok in US
Trump says will ban TikTok amid pressure on Chinese owner to sell
LINE MAN, a Thailand-based food delivery unit of Japanese chat app LINE, raises $110M and merges with local restaurant aggregator Wongnai
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach
Apple Q3: iPhone sales of $26.42B, up 1.66% YoY and beating expectations of $22.37B, Greater China sales of $9.33B, up from $9.16B YoY
Facebook stock up 7% in after-hours
AUTO1, a Germany-based used-car trading marketplace operating in 30 European markets, raises €255M in convertible notes to develop its retail brand Autohero
Anti-Amazon campaigners in France team up to say ‘non’ to firm’s expansion
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Ancient ‘Acropolis of the sea’ opens to divers, guarded by high tech
European communications startup Infobip raises $200M for over $1B valuation
Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation of Google's $2.1B bid for Fitbit after EC preliminary review ends August 4
Facebook, Google absorb U.S. lawmakers’ jabs in rare Big Tech hearing
Did glitch help Amazon escape early questions in Washington hearing?
Hacker News · 2 weeks ago