Microsoft To Buy Bethesda In $7.5 Billion Deal, Acquiring Fallout, The Elder Scrolls The deal is set to be one of the largest ever acquisitions in the video game industry. Once the deal is finalized, Microsoft will own popular franchises such as Wolfenstein, Quake, and DOOM. Reese Oxner
U.S. Blocks Downloads of TikTok, WeChat, Starting Sunday The Commerce Department says it will ban all U.S. business transactions with Chinese-owned apps WeChat and TikTok. The parent company ByteDance is under pressure to sell TikTok to a U.S. company.
U.S. To Bar Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat As of Sunday, no mobile app store in the U.S. will be allowed to distribute or maintain the popular Chinese-owned apps, the Commerce Department says. Bill Chappell
Trump Casts New Doubt On Any Deal To Keep TikTok Alive In U.S. Trump also said he's been advised "there is no legal path" for the U.S. to keep a cut of whatever TikTok deal the government approves, an idea he had earlier floated. Bobby Allyn
Celebrities Boycott Facebook And Instagram For A Day Over Disinformation, Hate Speech Some of the most prominent users of the social media platforms called for a 24-hour boycott to protest Facebook's failure to control disinformation and hate speech. Mark Katkov
Bill Gates Sr., Father Of Microsoft Co-Founder, Dies At 94 "My dad's wisdom, generosity, empathy, and humility had a huge influence on people around the world," Gates wrote in a tribute to his father. Suzanne Nuyen
Hastings Writes About Netflix's Cultural Reinvention In 'No Rules Rules' Netflix added 26 million subscribers so far this year. Reed Hastings co-founder and CEO of the streaming service credits the company's unorthodox office culture for its meteoric rise. Bobby Allyn
Long Before Cambridge Analytica And Facebook, Simulmatics Linked Data And Politics In "If Then," author and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore unearths Simulmatics' story and makes the argument that the company paved the way for our 21st-century obsession with data and prediction. Shannon Bond
Microsoft, Oracle Lose Bids For TikTok, According To China State TV In a surprise move, ByteDance rejects a bid made by tech giant Microsoft to acquire the U.S. assets of hit video-sharing app TikTok. The company also spurned Oracle. Bobby Allyn
ByteDance Rejects Offers For TikTok's U.S. Operations With its deadline to sell or be banned in the U.S. fast approaching, Chinese tech giant ByteDance said it will not sell TikTok to either Microsoft or Oracle. That's according to China state TV. Bobby Allyn