Mon. 09/21 – ByteDance Says It Won. Trump Says Not So Fast. TikTok Continues… For Now.

It looked like we had a TikTok deal the president liked. Then ByteDance went and pointed out they still had control. Now, I dunno where we’re at. Microsoft buys Bethesda. The founder of Nikola steps down in murky circumstances. And Amazon wants to use your Echo and Tile devices for a true Internet of Things network.

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• Trump Blesses Oracle’s TikTok Deal, Delays App Store Ban (Bloomberg)
• TikTok deal hit by confusion over who will own and control the app (FT)
• Judge halts Trump administration order banning WeChat from Apple and Google app stores (CNBC)
• Microsoft purchases Bethesda Softworks in industry-changing acquisition [Updated] (ArsTechnica)
• With $100M in funding, Playco is already a mobile gaming unicorn (TechCrunch)
• Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Resigns as Executive Chairman Amid Fraud Allegations (WSJ)
• Nikola’s chairman steps down, stock crashes following allegations of fraud (TechCrunch)
• Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon (TechCrunch)