Stock futures plunged in early trading on Friday after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19 …
Tag: President Trump
Here’s where President Trump and Joe Biden stand on antitrust, social media, and other tech issues
Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden don’t agree on many issues, but they do share a wariness toward Big Tech …
Would Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett be good or bad for Apple?
President Trump appears poised to cement a supermajority of conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett …
U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump admin’s ban on new TikTok downloads
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple’s App Store from offering TikTok for download at…
U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google is imminent
The U.S. DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general this week about its imminent plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google …
Apple CEO Tim Cook praises Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the occasion of her death
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at her home in Washington D.C. on Friday. She was 87…
President Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday
The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night…
Oracle wins bid for TikTok in U.S., beating Microsoft
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, has chosen Oracle over Microsoft, to be its U.S. technology partner in the U.S…
China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut…
Investors should brace themselves for the U.S. election
The stock market took a turn for the turbulent in the last week or so, perhaps from the effect of the unwinding of bullish options bets…
JPMorgan: Investors should prepare for rising odds of President Trump’s re-election
According to JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategist Marko Kolanovic, investors should position for the rising odds of President Donald Trump winning…
Trump administration: TikTok buyer will not be able to transfer data from American soil to Chinese servers
As the deadline looms for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell off its popular video platform TikTok to an American company…
Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft in bid to acquire TikTok’s U.S. business
Walmart has confirmed it’s teaming up with Microsoft in a bid for ByteDance’s TikTok service.On August 14, U.S. President Trump ordered…
Apple CEO Tim Cook celebrates 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government…
Stocks soar to record highs as President Trump hails ‘major breakthrough’ in COVID-19 fight
U.S. stocks rallied to record highs after a report said a COVID-19 vaccine could come before the November 3rd election and President Trump …
President Trump says Oracle could handle TikTok purchase
President Trump this week said that Oracle could take on TikTok after he issued an executive order that would ban the video app…
President Trump gives ByteDance and Microsoft until Sept. 15th to reach TikTok deal
With TikTok, owner ByteDance became the first Chinese company to achieve global success with a consumer app. But, the Trump administration…
President Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in U.S. TikTok operations within 90 days
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90…
President Trump on concerns WeChat ban could hurt Apple: ‘Whatever’
On Friday, U.S. President Trump seemed nonplused when asked about the ramifications of banning WeChat on Apple’s iPhone business in China…
Apple warns President Trump about potential ramifications WeChat ban
Apple is among more than a dozen U.S. companies which during a conference call on Tuesday warned the Trump administration about…
Apple opposes President Trump’s proclamation on suspending U.S. entry of alien workers
Apple, along with several of nation’s largest tech companies have joined the court battle against President Trump …
S&P 500 nears record high as U.S. stimulus bets climb
The S&P 500 closed in on its February peak on Tuesday on hopes for more U.S. stimulus., returning to levels prior to the reaction to COVID-19…
Trump administration announces U.S. spectrum auction to fuel 5G growth
In order to ramp up 5G network coverage in the United States, the Trump administration on Monday unveiled plans to auction off spectrum…
U.S. Treasury Sec. Mnuchin: Democrats now ‘willing to compromise’ on COVID-19 stimulus package
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that he believes Democrats are “willing to compromise” on a fourth COVID-19 stimulus package…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple iPhone sales could decline up to 30% over WeChat ban
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s worst-case scenario, Apple’s annual global iPhone shipments could decline by 25–30% if the company…
President Trump’s WeChat ban could impact iPhone sales in China
U.S. President Donald Trump’s order banning U.S. companies from doing business with Chinese messaging app WeChat could impact Apple’s iPhone…
U.S. President Trump issues executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat
U.S. President Trump today issued executive orders banning the China-based TikTok video-sharing and WeChat messaging social networking apps…
Clean Network: U.S. steps up campaign to purge untrusted Chinese apps
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said expanded U.S. efforts on a program it calls “Clean Network” would focus on five areas and include…
Microsoft plans to finish TikTok acquisition talks ahead of President Trump’s Sept. 15 deadline
Microsoft and TikTok plan to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks, ahead of President Trump’s Sept. 15 deadline…
Apple denies reported interest in acquiring TikTok
Apple has denied interest in acquiring TikTok after an Axios story from earlier Tuesday reported that Apple was looking into a potential deal. The Trump…
Chinese Communist Party state-run media: China will not accept U.S. ‘theft’ of TikTok
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to the Trump administration’s move to push ByteDance…
President Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to buy TikTok’s U.S. business
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed that U.S. President Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has discussed Microsoft exploring a purchase of TikTok…
President Trump vows to ban Chinese-owned TikTok from the U.S.
President Donald Trump has announced he plans to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. He told reporters aboard Air Force One…
EU imposes sanctions on China, moving closer to Trump administration’s tougher stance
On Tuesday, the European Union imposed sanctions on China over its treatment of Hong Kong moving the bloc closer to the Trump administration’s tougher…
Analyst: Tax hike under Biden poses bigger threat to tech than antitrust hearings
The real threat facing the tech firms comes not from lawmakers now, but from higher taxes later if Joe Biden prevails against President Trump…
Why President Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t part of massive hack
The team’s conclusion: The hack was coming from an account inside the house, yet perhaps the most high-profile Twitter accounts of all, President Trump’s …
U.S. senator demands answers after massive Twitter hack
A successful attack on your system represents a threat to privacy and data security… Did this Twitter hack threaten the security of the President’s account?
UK sides with President Trump on China; to purge Huawei from 5G net
In another strong signal that telecom equipment maker Huawei is not welcome in the West, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Huawei equipment…
U.S. to suspend retaliation contingent on France suspending digital tax
The Trump administration will announce actions against France over its digital services tax but will defer them while France defers tax collections from…
Apple signs NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace to Beats endorsement deal
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace has signed an endorsement deal with Apple subsidiary Beats By Dre, the headphone maker announced Monday…
Apple CEO Tim Cook displeased with President Trump’s restrictions on temporary worker visas
President Trump on Monday signed a proclamation to suspend the issuance of certain temporary worker visas through the end of 2020. The proclamation…
New U.S. government development agency could loan billions for reshoring, official says
U.S. government financing for reshoring projects to return critical supply chains to the United States as part of coronavirus response efforts could…
