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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Source: TikTok will sue the Trump administration over the executive order banning the service, as soon as Tuesday (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
- An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden (Steven Levy/Wired)
- Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture (Elamin Abdelmahmoud/BuzzFeed News)
- John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to "lead the industry" in building machine intelligence-driven features and products (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
- Interview with Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson on the Facebook ad boycott, meeting with Zuckerberg, working with the company, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
- How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy (Jackie Snow/Wall Street Journal)
- Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the "poison chalice" of the TikTok deal (Steven Levy/Wired)
- Intelligence agencies don't see TikTok as a major security issue, see the claimed risks as largely theoretical, and view companies like Huawei as larger threats (New York Times)
- Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
- In a memo to advertisers, TikTok says it will refund ad campaigns it can't fulfill due to a US ban and will work with influencers to migrate to other platforms (Sheila Dang/Reuters)
- Interview with Jack Dorsey on Twitter's role in shaping public discourse, building nuance in platform design, and whether Twitter should censor Trump (New York Times)
- Facebook formally open sourced Pysa, a static analyzer tool for Python code, which detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side code in H1 2020 (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
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