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FILE - Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, in a Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo. The Commerce Department said President Trump’s proposed ban of the apps WeChat and TikTok will go into effect Sunday, Sept. 20, to “safeguard the national security of the United States.” The government said its order, previously announced by Trump in August, will “combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data.” (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns

By TALI ARBEL and MATT O'BRIEN and MATT OTT - Associated Press

In this March 22, 2019 file photo, an American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chinese, Malaysian hackers charged with targeting over 100 U.S. companies

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file photo, Bill Gates Sr. talks to reporters in Seattle. Gates, a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft co-founder, dies at 94

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2001 file photo Bill Gates, Sr., co-chair and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, listens to a grantee speaking at a ceremony in Seattle. Gates, a lawyer and philanthropist and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, at age 94. (AP Photo/Cheryl Hatch,File)

Bill Gates Sr. dies at 94

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This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. (AP Photo/File)

Microsoft bid for TikTok rejected by Bytedance

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

AP source: TikTok owner chooses Oracle over Microsoft in proposed sale forced by Trump administratio

Associated Press

This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. (AP Photo/File)

TikTok choses Oracle over Microsoft to buy video-sharing app

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden places a note card in his jacket pocket as he speaks at a campaign event on manufacturing and buying American-made products at UAW Region 1 headquarters in Warren, Mich., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Democratic firm working for Biden campaign targeted by suspected Russian hackers: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Surge in options trading helps drive gains on Wall Street

By ALEX VEIGA - Associated Press

In this combination photo, President Donald Trump, left, speaks at a news conference on Aug. 11, 2020, in Washington and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del. on Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Microsoft warns of election-related cyberattacks from China, Iran, Russia

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Microsoft to launch new $500 Xbox console Nov. 10

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Tech stocks slump again, with big drops for Apple and Microsoft, pulling Nasdaq down 10% over the pa

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This June 19, 2019, file photo shows Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Amazon refuses to yield to Microsoft on Defense contract

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, and his wife Jill Biden receive a briefing from education leaders and experts in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Microsoft building deepfake detection tools to thwart disinformation on 2020 election

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Employees exit the ByteDance headquarters in Beijing, China on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered a sweeping but unspecified ban on dealings with the Chinese owners of consumer apps TikTok and WeChat, although it remains unclear if he has the legal authority to actually ban the apps from the U.S. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Report: Algorithm question complicates TikTok sale

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - A woman uses her phone as she passes by the ByteDance headquarters in Beijing, China, on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. The Chinese government is complicating the U.S.-government-ordered sale of U.S. TikTok assets. China on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology, seemingly including the type that TikTok uses to choose which videos to spool up to its users. That means TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, would have to obtain a license to export any restricted technologies to a foreign company. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese govt complicates TikTok sale ordered by US govt

By TALI ARBEL and ZEN SOO - Associated Press

This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. (AP Photo/File)

Mike Pompeo predicts TikTok will stop sharing U.S. data once ownership dispute settles

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - President Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks during a briefing with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington. TikTok and its U.S. employees are planning to take the Trump administration to court over a sweeping order that could ban the popular video app, according to a lawyer preparing one of the lawsuits. The employees’ legal challenge to Trump’s executive order will be separate from a pending lawsuit from the company that owns the app, says Mike Godwin, an internet policy lawyer representing the employees. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, a Microsoft Surface Duo is displayed in New York. Microsoft is back to selling smartphones for the first time since it abandoned its mobile business more than four years ago.The company began taking orders Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, for the Surface Duo, a new dual-screen Android device that costs $1,399 and begins shipping in September. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Microsoft back in the smartphone business with its new Duo

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press