Microsoft is contemplating the acquisition of TikTok’s U.S. operations, an agreement that would give the software company a popular social networking site and ease tensions between the Trump administration and the Chinese owner of the video sharing app. TikTok owner ByteDance has rejected accusations that it provides user knowledge to the Chinese government. If an agreement is reached, Microsoft would get a popular client app that would convince other young people with normal nutrition of dance videos, lip sync clips and viral memes. Microsoft has invested in social media in the past, but has never developed a popular service of its own. —David E. Rovella
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The transmission rate of New Jersey coronavirus has risen to 1.3 and five, meaning the virus is spreading, and Gov. Phil Murphy warned of an increase in cases due to non-compliance with mask regulations and social estrangement. The state, where the cases peaked months ago, is in “a very damaging place,” Murphy said. Florida has just damaged some other death record, and infections in Italy and Spain are emerging again. Worse, a new test indicates that children under the age of five can harbor up to a hundred times more viruses in their upper respiratory tract than adults. Here’s the last one.
U.S. hospitals and medical practices They are running out of masks and in the midst of a furious pandemic, however, the federal government is still planning to distribute its inflated stocks.
A federal appeals court rejected Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the ruling on who oversaw the case did not adequately examine jurors for possible bias. The court ordered a new penalty phase.
With no tactics to get significant returns on investment, some plunder their money savings by generating interest to take over assets such as bitcoin, gold and stocks. Savers, in other words, are worried. The same goes for the U.S. government: Fitch has just lowered its outlook for U.S. debt ratings. A negative, which leads to a deterioration of public finances and the lack of a credible fiscal consolidation plan.
Remember the massive Twitter hack two weeks ago that created 130 accounts, adding those of former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West and Jeff Bezos? Prosecutors say the 17-year-old’s brain.
One of the worst facets of running from home: feeling like your bosses don’t think you’re busy because they can’t see you’re busy. How do you let them know you’re on the run, especially when you have nothing to show? Here are some strategies.
What’s Emily Barrett thinking? The U.S. reporter for Bloomberg on rates argues that one of the things about the Fed’s underrated assembly this week is that the market has confidence in Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Some sophisticated adjustments to rates on the day it announced that the Fed was of status recommend that investors put cash in the central bank’s ability to serve its mandate.
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The time of the week of the major leagues’ attempt to play a season as a global pandemic may not have been much worse. It began with a full-blown Covid-19 epidemic in the Miami Marlins clubhouse. The news of the first effects came here the series of last weekend opposite the Philadelphia Phillies, forcing the starting pitcher scheduled for Sunday, José Ureña, to leave the lineup. However, the team voted to play the last game in this opening series, which turns out to be the last game they played.
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