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Microsoft weighs TikTok purchase as ad business flattens out

Microsoft could re-energize its advertising business with a huge supply of video if it follows through on acquiring TikTok's U.S. operations from ByteDance.Microsoft is in deal talks as the U.S. g

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Report: Trump wants to order TikTok owner ByteDance to sell US business

President Trump has plans to order China’s ByteDance, the owner of hit social video app TikTok, to divest from the company, according to new reporting from Bloomberg. The app is increasingly a

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Secret documents from US antitrust probe reveal big tech’s plot to control or crush the competition

Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary’s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. We’ve col

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Facebook will launch officially licensed music videos in the US starting this weekend

Facebook today confirmed it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the U.S., as TechCrunch first reported, as well as introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Wat

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Big Tech firms see robust results in pandemic-hit quarter

The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in a combination photo from Reuters files. /Reuters Big Tech firms delivered robust results Thursday, underscoring growing consumer reliance on

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Zuckerberg unconvincingly feigns ignorance of data-sucking VPN scandal

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg appeared less than entirely truthful at today’s House Judiciary hearing, regarding last year’s major Onavo controversy, in which his company paid teenager

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Trump's new visa restrictions seem like photo-op

Mary Chang, a mid-level manager at a Fortune 200 company in Washington, D.C., said recent U.S. visa restrictions seem more like a photo-op than anything else. "Limiting

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Twitter temporarily suspends Donald Trump Jr over COVID-19 posts

Donald Trump Jr's Twitter account has suspended for 12 hours for violating the site's misinformation policy on COVID-19. /Gage Skidmore Twitter has temporarily suspended Donald Trump Jr's acco

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Trump again pushes unproven drug as COVID-19 treatment

A week after appearing to project a more serious tone about the coronaviru s, President Donald Trump is back to spreading misinformation about how to combat the virus a

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What to expect from tech’s historic antitrust showdown with Congress

Chief executives from four of the world’s most powerful companies will defend the vast empires they’ve built in testimony before Congress on Wednesday.In a hearing held by the House’

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Twitter restricts Donald Trump Jr.’s account for sharing COVID-19 misinformation

Twitter has temporarily frozen Donald Trump Jr.’s account after the president’s son shared a video making false and potentially life-threatening claims about the coronavirus pandemic.The

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Teespring’s comeback story

Startup stories are often too reductive — an entrepreneur dreams up an idea, snags some co-founders, raises a bit of money, and presto: success and riches.It’s nearly never true. Even breakout s

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As ADA turns 30, tech is just getting started helping people with disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 paved the way for decades of incremental changes to the way buildings, businesses, and laws accommodate people with a wide variety of disabilities. At 30 ye

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Top mobile apps see declines in consumer engagement amid increased competition

Mobile consumers are downloading and using more apps than ever before. According to recent data from App Annie, mobile users now have 93 apps on their phone as of the end of 2019, up from 85 apps at t

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Sinclair pulls show where Fauci conspiracy theory is aired

The Sinclair Broadcast Group said Saturday it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Ant

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Startups Weekly: What education do you need to build a great tech company?

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here.The easy startup ideas have all been done — the ones that

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QAnon: The bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory growing ahead of the US election

It has been described as a right-wing conspiracy theory, an emerging religious movement, and even as a domestic terrorism threat in one FBI bulletin - but what exactly is QAnon?Put simply, QAnon is a