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Who could buy TikTok?

The clock has begun ticking for TikTok to find a new owner. President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sells the app. TikTok plans to challenge the law in court, but if it fails, the company would have to find a buyer, and fast. That […]

What’s at stake in the Google antitrust case? Billions of dollars (and the way we use the internet)

  Whenever you type a search into Apple’s Safari browser — say, on an iPhone — chances are it’s Google that returns the results. You can tell Safari to pick another search engine, but in practice most people tend to stick with Google by default. You might know that Google pays Apple enormous sums of […]