Author: Tech Support

    • The language in Trump's EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

    Ana Swanson / New York Times: The language in Trump’s EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China  —  The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump administration.

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    • Huawei says that production of its high-end Kirin smartphone chips will stop Sept. 15 and, more broadly, its smartphone production has "no chips and no supply" (Joe Mcdonald/Associated Press)

    Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press: Huawei says that production of its high-end Kirin smartphone chips will stop Sept. 15 and, more broadly, its smartphone production has “no chips and no supply”  —  BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions … Huawei says

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    • Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric "more understandable" (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

    Kim Lyons / The Verge: Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric “more understandable”  —  Whatever they’re called, this is really going to mess with the ratio  —  In a move that may forever change what it means …

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    • US bank regulator fines Capital One $80M over a 2019 hack that compromised personal info of ~106M card customers and applicants between 2005 and early 2019 (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

    AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: US bank regulator fines Capital One $80M over a 2019 hack that compromised personal info of ~106M card customers and applicants between 2005 and early 2019  —  OCC, Federal Reserve order the bank to beef up cybersecurity defenses  —  A top banking regulator has fined Capital … US bank

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    Print With Plasma!

    Over the years there have been a variety of methods for a computer to commit its thoughts to paper. Be it a daisy wheel, a dot matrix, a laser, or an inkjet, we’ve all cursed at a recalcitrant printer. There’s another type of printer that maybe we don’t think of quite as often but is

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    • Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

    Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple’s business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China  —  Trump’s ban could have far-reaching consequences for Apple  —  President Trump’s executive order banning WeChat … Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business

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    • Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's US operations, expects it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok’s US operations, expects it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft  —  Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app’s U.S. operations  —  Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% … Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's

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    • Profile of Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang, from his early startup endeavors to creating a $100B+ social commerce giant successfully challenging Alibaba and JD (Turner Novak/Turner's Blog)

    Turner Novak / Turner’s Blog: Profile of Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang, from his early startup endeavors to creating a $100B+ social commerce giant successfully challenging Alibaba and JD  —  How the son of factory workers grew Pinduoduo from Zero to $100 billion in five years.  —  In 2015, Colin Huang founded his third company, Pinduoduo

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    • How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history (Tripp Mickle/Wall Street Journal)

    Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history  —  The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs’s creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history How Tim Cook turned Apple into

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    • A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei's 5G phones (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: A presentation that’s been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to sell its chips for Huawei’s 5G phones  —  Smartphone chip maker warns of potentially losing billions of dollars in sales because of export limits A presentation that's been circulating around DC shows Qualcomm is lobbying

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    • Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office (Washington Post)

    Washington Post: Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory signals, amid shouting matches between Mnuchin and Navarro in the Oval Office  —  Trump advisers Mnuchin and Navarro fought over TikTok as Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to Trump Inside the efforts to sell TikTok as Trump keeps sending contradictory

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    • Kodak deal with US government to produce pharmaceuticals appears to be on hold

    Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images An agreement between the US government and Kodak to develop generic drug ingredients appears to be on hold, after the US International Development Finance Corporation tweeted that “recent allegations of wrongdoing raise serious concerns.” “We will not proceed any further unless these allegations are cleared,” the agency tweeted, without specifying

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