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...Thiel, a big backer of Republican candidates and a supporter of former US president Donald Trump, was one of the earliest mainstream investors to buy large sums of bitcoin and has subsequently been loudly...
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...In 2020, then President Donald Trump issued an executive order to block TikTok from operating in the US and gave ByteDance 90 days to divest from its American assets....
...It could also align its lobbying efforts more closely with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, who has come out against a ban — despite his earlier opposition to the app...
...and for various controversies during her tenure, including comments she made minimising the notion that it played a role in the events leading to the January 6 2021 storming of the US Capitol by a mob of Donald...
...In July, an ad from Never Back Down, a fundraising group supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis, appeared to use AI to re-create former president Donald Trump’s voice reading a message he posted on social...
...Companies: Abbott Laboratories and infrastructure company Kinder Morgan are scheduled to report first-quarter earnings. Five more top stories 1....
...Tabby Kinder looks at the options that lie ahead for the Chinese-owned tech company. 3....
...The FT’s Tabby Kinder reports on Microsoft’s latest move to capitalise on the boom in generative AI. 4....
...of Woodside — a Democratic stronghold 40 miles south of San Francisco with fewer than 5,000 residents — to meet deep-pocketed Bay Area tech executives and investors and build a war chest to compete with Donald...
...Michela Flück’s set looks like an extravagant extension of the landscapes that come in Kinder Surprise eggs, complete with lumpy plastic mountain, painted flames, and a paddling pool straight from Banksy...
...On the San Francisco waterfront is our West Coast finance editor Tabby Kinder....
...But the deal, which involved selling TikTok’s US operations to Oracle, was shelved following Donald Trump’s exit from the White House....
...Reporting by Antoine Gara, Stephen Gandel, Brooke Masters and Joshua Franklin in New York, Colby Smith in Washington, and Tabby Kinder in San Francisco...
...Smart reads Silicon Valley powers the arms race The US military has turned to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare, DD’s Tabby Kinder reports....
...Chipmaker IBM and US pipeline operator Kinder Morgan report after the closing bell....
...Last year its chair and founder Zhang Yiming stepped down following a geopolitical storm in which the US government, led by former president Donald Trump, tried to force the sale of part of ByteDance’s global...
...As the spotlight shines on its return on investment in Asia, issues concerning Kirkland’s Hong Kong office culture have also come under scrutiny, the FT’s Tabby Kinder reports....
...People close to the matter told the FT’s Tabby Kinder, Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett that the agreement was based on the same deal signed between the superpowers in 2013....
...Trump media venture warns of bankruptcy riskThe blank-cheque company set to merge with Donald Trump’s social media start-up has warned shareholders that its plan to “cancel ‘cancel culture’” faces risks...
...Davos may have failed to deliver a kinder form of capitalism, but its role in fostering the uglier current alternative is more modest than Goodman suggests....
...Fibbing can be for the greater good: it is arguably kinder to reassure an anxious colleague over his new haircut than to stare aghast at his pate....
...The company was booted from the New York Stock Exchange along with state-run peers China Mobile and China Unicom in January to comply with an executive order signed by Donald Trump that prohibited Americans...
...We always want to hear your thoughts and feedback, so drop me a line at @Tabby_Kinder or email us at longstoryshort@ft.com — and have a lovely weekend. TabbyAsia financial correspondent...
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