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Apple  (AAPL) - Get Report denied that it is in the running to purchase the U.S. operations of popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok after Axios reported that the tech giant was interested in buying it.  While Microsoft  (MSFT) - Get Report has confirmed that it is negotiating with ByteDance, the Chinese conglomerate that owns TikTok, to purchase the platform's U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand operations, Apple responded to the report by saying that there are no negotiations and it is not interested. Apple has about $193 billion in cash on hand and last month strong second-quarter results helped the tech company overtake oil driller Saudi Aramco as the world's most valuable publicly listed company. Axios reported earlier that multiple sources outside of Apple said that the tech giant has expressed interest in buying TikTok.  Meanwhile, TikTok has been a lightning rod for scrutiny after President Trump told reporters that he would...

Your tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter, for Tuesday, 4 August 2020. As it turns out, loads of reviewers had hands-on with the Pixel 4a in advance of Google announcing the phone, which came out in one model for $349/£349/€349. And, the majority reckon it’s pretty good. My colleague David Imel calls it Google’s best phone in years in his review, noting that it’s one of the best experiences on Android, for one-third the price of flagships, and adding: “If you don’t care about flashy features and just want something that works well, the Pixel 4a is a no-brainer.” The camera here is again the real winning element. It has the same 12.2MP Sony IMX363 rear sensor as the Pixel 4, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3, and it offers much of the same. Here, versus the 3a, the Snapdragon 730G looks to have given Google some improvements, with better white balance, employing warmer tones and more balanced shadows. Google didn’t get anything wrong here. You get good battery...

Days after President Donald Trump announced he could use an executive order to ban TikTok from the United States, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the administration is “closing in on a solution and I think you’ll see the president’s announcement shortly.” In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo, Pompeo also said that the Trump administration may take action against other Chinese tech companies doing business in the U.S., claiming that some are “feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist Party.” Beijing-based ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, is currently in talks with Microsoft to sell to the American tech giant its TikTok business in the U.S. and several other countries. The negotiations have taken on more urgency over the last two weeks as the Trump administration issued escalating statements about the popular app. Microsoft said on Sunday that it is in discussions to buy TikTok’s operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Ze...

LONDON (Reuters) - European shares were mixed on Tuesday after company earnings reports, and the dollar’s rebound stalled as investors waited for talks about government aid in the United States to make progress. FILE PHOTO: The London Stock Exchange Group offices are seen in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville Strong U.S. manufacturing data boosted sentiment through the Asian session, even as Sino-U.S. relations took a turn for the worst. After a rally on Monday, European shares opened higher but quickly slipped into the red, with the pan-European STOXX 600 down 0.3% and London's FTSE 100 flat on the day .FTSE by 1034 GMT. Disappointing earnings reports from the world’s largest spirits maker, Diageo Plc (DGE.L), and German drugs and pesticides group Bayer (BAYGn.DE) took the shine off growth-linked cyclical stocks. Shares in BP jumped after it cut its dividend and posted a record loss that was in line with expectations. The MSCI world equity index ...

People generally adore Google for bringing useful technology to the masses at an aggressively low price, if not free. For those who like that, I have happy news: Google is getting really, really good at the price cutting, while still bringing quality, with its smartphones. The evidence? The Pixel 4A smartphone, which the company introduced on Monday. With this latest device, Google took the best stuff from its $800 high-end Pixel 4 — specifically, an excellent camera system and a large, bright screen — and squeezed it into the body of a $350 device. That’s $50 less than last year’s Pixel 3A, which was Google’s first budget phone. The Pixel 4A is cheaper than high-end devices largely because it lacks the frills in fancy phones, like wireless charging and a face scanner. But for what you pay, it’s a great value. Its camera quality and bright screen are on a par with many of the best smartphones out there. Like the $399 iPhone SE, which Apple released in April, the Pixel 4A is a sign that...

Fascinating Facts About Google 1)  The Tech Giant - GOOGLE !! 1. The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it 2. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub' 3. As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ Is'nt it interesting ? 3. Google employees in the US get death benefits which guarantee that the surviving spouse will receive 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.                                                                                                               ...