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- $4. One source involved in the discussions told Business Insider that China's new rules favor Triller because the company could take on TikTok's branding while still using its own code.
- $4. Apple on Tuesday announced a group of new developer fees motivated by new digital services taxes in Italy, France, the UK, and Turkey.
- $4. Business Insider obtained the list of accounts from freelance writers who said they had been duped into writing for the Russian operation, which posed as a progressive website called "Peace Data."
- $4. "Fall Guys" has hit 7 million downloads on Steam, and the game was created after Mediatonic lost all its client business in 2016.
- $4. Bumble could seek an initial-public-offering valuation between $6 billion and $8 billion, the news agency reported.
- $4. The new reviews will assess performance for the past 12 months, whereas previously reviews typically assessed a 6-month period.
- $4. Hitesh Tolani launched Virtudent in 2014 as one of the first commercial teledentistry firms; its hygienists conduct exams in corporate offices or other places and then consult with its dentists over the internet.
- $4. In its $4, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the NSA broke the law by collecting "phone metadata," or bulk records of Americans' phone call history.
- $4. According to The Daily Beast, the backlash was so strong that Mark Zuckerberg alluded to the post in a note to employees, saying some people weren't "appreciating the impact their words are having on our Black community."
- $4. Microsoft said it's inevitable deepfake technology will adapt to avoid detection, but that in the run-up to the election its tool can be useful.
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