“I have no desire to do all the things that WhatsApp does,” Brian Acton, cofounder of he Signal Foundation, told TechCrunch. Acton also cofounded WhatsApp.
US President Donald Trump threatened to ban TikTok from the US, citing national security concerns. He then ordered it sold and has said he wants a deal by September 15.
Senior Facebook employees took to Twitter over the weekend to express their dismay at their chief executive officer’s decision not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by the US president.
In recent months, Audible, the audiobook service owned by Amazon.com has been meeting with talent agencies and producers to discuss acquiring potential new podcast projects—or, in the terminology that Audible prefers, ‘Audible Originals.’
China warned on Sunday that it would take “necessary measures” to protect Huawei and other firms after the United States announced new restrictions on the tech giant’s purchases of semiconductor technology.
Beijing has urged the United States to stop the “unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises” after Washington announced new export controls to restrict the tech giant’s access to semiconductor technology.
Vodacom, which recorded as much as a 40% rise in data traffic since the lockdown began will benefit from the “structural shift” that’s set to leave demand for data permanently higher.
With 1.6 million customers and 850 000 active accounts and counting, TymeBank’s growth in the first year of its launch surpassed its own projections. But can the bank maintain this momentum as the novelty of trying new things wears off for digitally savvy early adopters?
A US judge has approved Tesla and CEO Elon Musk’s $40m settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, resolving government claims that Musk misled the public with a flurry of tweets about a plan to take the company private.
As Netflix and Amazon pour ever-larger sums into TV and movie production, Google is holding spending at current levels for its YouTube Red streaming service for the next two years.