TikTok sale to Oracle and Walmart put on ice ‘indefinitely’

Posted on 10/02/2021 by Engadget

TikTok’s December 4th sale deadline came and went with no real response from the outgoing Trump administration, and it appears President Biden isn’t in a rush to finalize the deal. Wall Street Journal sources understand TikTok’s forced sale to Oracle...

Microsoft and Oracle are working on digital COVID-19 vaccine cards

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Starting later this month, the US will require international air passengers to show evidence of a recent negative COVID-19 test or proof that they have recently recovered from the disease. Alternatively, now that COVID-19 vaccines are being administe...

TikTok’s deadline for a sale has moved to December 4th

Posted on 26/11/2020 by Engadget

Remember that deadline the Trump Administration imposed for TikTok to either sell or face being shut down in the US? It already shifted back to the 27th — after TikTok complained the government wasn’t responding to inquiries — and it’s now moved agai...

Commerce Department extends deadline for a TikTok sale to the 27th

Posted on 14/11/2020 by Engadget

For months, the Trump Administration has pushed for TikTok to either be sold or get shut down and locked out of doing business with US companies. However, despite the incomplete status of a proposed sale that would’ve made it a partner with Oracle, a...

TikTok ask the court to prevent a US ban from taking effect

Posted on 24/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Last week the Commerce Department delayed plans to implement a ban that would prevent new downloads of the TikTok app by one week, pushing the deadline out to this coming Sunday as its owner negotiated a deal with the government, Oracle and Walmart....

Trump approves TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart ‘in concept’

Posted on 20/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

TikTok appears to have avoided a US ban at the last minute... probably. President Trump has agreed to a deal “in concept” (via CNBC) that theoretically allays US security issues while letting it operate in the country. True to earlier discussions, Or...

TikTok’s global headquarters might move to the US to avert a ban

Posted on 15/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Details of ByteDance’s deal with Oracle for control of TikTok are beginning to come into focus. ByteDance’s partnership with Oracle “will place TikTok’s global business in a new US-headquartered company with Oracle investing as a minority shareholder...

To avoid TikTok ban, ByteDance partners with Oracle in the US

Posted on 14/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

TikTok, the social video platform that has dominated American politics for far too long will team up with Oracle in the hope of avoiding a US ban. In a statement, the cloud services giant says that it is part of a proposal that TikTok owner ByteDance...

FT: Oracle joins Microsoft as a possible bidder for TikTok

Posted on 18/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

For a couple of weeks, Microsoft had been the only name publicly attached as a potential buyer for TikTok, and it has about a month left before the announced September 15th deadline to make a deal. Since then, Twitter was reported as a company in “pr...

Google’s fight with Oracle will be heard in the Supreme Court

Posted on 16/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google is getting one more shot at fending off Oracle's Android copyright claims. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Google's appeal of a federal appeals court ruling that Android violated Oracle copyright by using Java code without a license....

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