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Tech firms big and small have been developing everything from wearable devices to thermal imaging cameras to help businesses equip their office spaces for the future.

Zoom said on Monday it will no longer sell new or upgraded products directly to customers on the Chinese mainland. Instead, it will offer its video conferencing services via third-party partners.

American lawmakers fear current antitrust laws are not fit for the digital economy. This is a concern also shared by many lawmakers in Europe.

TikTok has said U.S. user data is stored in the country itself with a backup in Singapore and that its data centers were located outside China.

Xpeng Motors, one of Tesla's rivals in China, is in talks to raise around $300 million in funding ahead of an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., two sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.

ByteDance said it has "encountered all kinds of complex and unimaginable difficulties" in trying to become a global company including "plagiarism and smear" from its rival Facebook.

Hospitals have used SwipeSense technology to monitor hygiene and track assets, like wheelchairs. Now, some use it for contact-tracing to slow the spread of Covid-19.

President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act soon to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the U.S..

Under the new proposed deal, ByteDance would exit completely and Microsoft would take over TikTok in the United States, the sources said.

Vaccinating nearly 8 billion people won't happen overnight. Bioethicists weigh in on the thorny issue of who should get the vaccine first -- and why.

Microsoft's interest in TikTok comes after the Trump Administration said it is considering blocking the app in the U.S.

James Murdoch resigned from the News Corp board of directors on Friday citing "disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview out Friday, compared the U.S. to a sports team that stands poised to lose after years of winning.

A 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, is accused of taking over the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and numerous other celebrities to scam people into sending the teen bitcoin.

Apple shares closed up 10.47% Friday, giving it a market valuation of $1.84 trillion. Saudi Aramco, which had been the most valuable publicly listed company since its market debut last year, now trails at $1.76 trillion as of its last close.

Pinterest shares closed up 36.13% on Friday after the company reported second-quarter earnings which reflected how people turned to the service for at-home cooking, remote work and activities during the stay-at-home orders.

Analysts said factors like the amount of revenue coming from direct-response versus brand advertising, exposure to areas like travel and sheer size gave Facebook's ad business a leg up over Google's in the second quarter.

Facebook announced deals with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, BMG, Kobalt and other independent music groups to launch music videos on its platform.

Apple buys a lot of smaller companies, and doesn't talk about what it plans to do with them.

Alphabet's Q2 earnings are expected to be hit hard by the effects of the pandemic alongside a maturing digital ad market.