Tue. 01/21 – TikTok Lives?

Alright, I’ll sum up everything that happened this weekend with TikTik, but also get to all of the changes the new Trump administration has made, which is relating to tech, in just the past 24 hours. How folks are trying to eat TikTok’s lunch. Should Apple buy Sonos? And the IMDB loses its founder after 25 years.

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Links:

• Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days (The Verge)
• Trump signs executive order to halt TikTok ban, risking legal showdown (Washington Post)
• President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official (TechCrunch)
• Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits (TechCrunch)
• Bluesky adds TikTok mode while Elon mulls reviving Vine in the latest banning drama (Windows Central)
• Apple Is Unlikely to Buy Sonos, But Amazon or Spotify Might Consider It (Bloomberg)
• IMDb Founder Col Needham Steps Aside as CEO, COO Nikki Santoro Promoted to Chief Exec (Variety)