UK ‘not part of the problem’ when it comes to U.S. trade, Britain’s finance minister says

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves listens during the 11th China-UK Economic And Financial Dialogue on January 11, 2025 in Beijing, China. Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K. is “not part of the problem” when it comes to “persistent” trade deficits that President Donald Trump wants to tackle, the country’s … Read more

Trump provides assurances company needed

TikTok was available to some U.S. users on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said that he would sign an executive order on Monday following his inauguration to delay a federal ban of the app. In a statement on X, the company wrote that it would bring back access to its American users. “In agreement with … Read more

Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in U.S.

Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.  The Apple App Store and the Google Play store’s removal of TikTok means people in the U.S. can no longer download the … Read more

Trump and China’s Xi discuss TikTok, trade, fentanyl, president-elect says

President Donald Trump talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping as Xi arrives for dinner at the start of their summit at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. Carlos Barria | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump said he spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday about TikTok, … Read more

TikTok creators ask followers to migrate ahead of ban to Meta, YouTube

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Before Jack Nader started posting beauty videos on TikTok in 2023, he was working as a Starbucks barista in Chicago and living at home with his parents.  But after Nader, who’s now 21, started taking his videos seriously in April of that year, his TikTok account blew up. … Read more

Meta eliminates fact-checking in nod to Trump

Meta on Tuesday announced it will eliminate its third-party fact-checking program to “restore free expression” and move to a “Community Notes” model, similar to the system that exists on Elon Musk‘s platform X. The company said Community Notes will be written and rated by contributing users to provide more context to posts across its platforms, … Read more

UK Prime Minister Starmer slams ‘lies’ after Musk tirade | Child Rights News

Starmer defends record as prosecutor after tech billionaire Musk attacks him and other Labour figures over handling of child rape cases. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his record and slammed those “spreading lies” following days of hostile attacks from Elon Musk over historical child rape crimes in northern England. “Those that are spreading … Read more

Trump lauds ouster of Syria’s al-Assad as ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye | Donald Trump News

United States President-elect Donald Trump has described the toppling of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as an “unfriendly takeover” by Turkiye, which had aligned itself with several of the opposition groups that led the lightning offensive on Damascus. Trump made the remarks – in apparent praise of Ankara – during a wide-ranging news conference on Monday … Read more

Broadcom’s long path to the trillion-dollar club, and Trump’s role

President Donald Trump introduces Broadcom CEO Hock Tan prior to Tan announcing the repatriation of his company’s headquarters to the United States from Singapore during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, November 2, 2017. Getty Images When Broadcom tried to buy rival Qualcomm for $120 billion in 2018, … Read more

Apple, Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok

A supporter holds up a sign that read “TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023. Alex Wong | Getty Images House Committee members are urging the top executives of Apple and Google to be prepared to comply with a law that could … Read more