Washington and the world talking, microsoft eyeing an acquisition of tiktok and is this comes after President Trump threatened to ban the app in the u. S. Over security concerns. The president made an about face and gave microsoft the go ahead to proceed with the deal josh lipton has the very latest. So, melissa, President Trump also weighing in here. Take a listen to what he had to say today. It will close down on september 15th unless microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the, really, the treasury, i guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money so, why is microsoft interested in tiktok well, its a wildly popular app with 100 million users already here in the u. S. Engagement trends are strong analysts note that users already spend over an hour a day on the app. Patrick moorhead emphasizes two broad reasons why this could make strategic sense one, he argues microsoft is relatively week in Consumer Ser
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We hear from an essential figure in that period. Tesla owners are talking in part to a bloomberg expansive study, thousands of model three owners. We examine whether parts and to parts. Re up Twitter Announces it will stop all political as on their platform, with the ceo saying it is not about free speech, it is about paying for reach. The sentiment was not echoed by facebook. They reported earnings and reassured their stance when it comes to political ads. Brandcebook ceo stayed on during the Earnings Call. I expect this will be a very tough year. We try to do what we think is right, but we will not get everything right. This is complex stuff. Anyone who says the answers are simple has knocked out long enough about has not thought long enough about the nuances and challenges. I get that some people are going to disagree with our decisions and think they may have a negative impact on things they really care about. But i dont think anyone can say that we are not doing what we believe or
Media giantal disney beats Fourth Quarter bottomline estimates. We will break down the results ahead of disneys highly anticipated streaming platform debut. Stories. R top facebook continues to struggle to read and trust over how it handles user data. That has become more complicated. There has now been a leak of internal documents suggesting business considerations outweighed those privacy concerns. It is something facebook publicly touted when it decided five years ago to cut off tens of thousands of developers from its platform. To discuss, im joined by Bloomberg Technologys sarah frier and ben brody in washington. Let me start with you, sarah. You covered this story. What do we know from these documents . Reporter the documents give us this interesting internal picture in a way we really havent seen before of how these decisions are made and the difference between how they are discussed internally and how the company explains them externally. And internally, they are saying we need