After President Trump’s demand to sell TikTok to an American firm began, every major company competed for the 100m users firm. Microsoft seemed ahead with the race, but Oracle’s Trump card brokered the deal! The most obvious winner in all this is China’s government. ByteDance gets to keep its prize asset rather than sell it on the cheap. Their government played the political chess game to perfection. Oracle will probably only benefit if it manages to convince TikTok’s cloud contract from Google to its cloud platform. ...

Facebook confirms it may follow Instagram and hide like counts. Users might feel less anxious about the perceived popularity of their content. Studies have shown that social media use may influence mental health, including leading to depression and anxiety. 

It’s 2019 and we are still dealing with encryption issues! 🤔🤦‍♂️ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/moviepass-thousands-data-exposed-leak/

Only Apple could get people to post pictures of a credit card in 2019. And here is mine! 😉🤑💳 #Apple #AppleCard #AppleCreditCard

According to Capital One, that data includes approximately 120,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 77,000 bank account numbers #CapitalOne #Databreach https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says

Great! I’ve been asking and waiting for this digital membership card scan feature for quite sometime from #Costco Still not a complete cardless solution at their gas stations yet. #CostcoiOSApp

My guess is someone who wrote code must either logging all HTTP requests or user objects and passwords were accidentally included in diagnostic logs, but who knows! And it valued at $7.6 billion earlier this week 🤦‍♂️ #Robinhood #RobinhoodPassword

Big deal for enterprise technology and Seattle tech. Tableau Software will remain based in Seattle and will continue to operate independently under the Tableau brand. ‬ Read More

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “Together with Spektacom and Star Sports, we are bringing the power of Azure and Azure Sphere to one of the world’s most celebrated games – cricket – transforming how it’s played, coached and watched.” Read More

Amazon Go rivals on the rise. ‘Standard Cognition’ appears to be first to announce a deal in actual stores. Other startups, Accel Robotics and Caper Lab, are using a similar system. Microsoft is in line next? Read More