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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has given a deal between ByteDance, Oracle and Walmart for TikTok his blessing, if they can complete the agreement.

Seth Schachner, the managing director of Stratamericas, does a deep dive into the ongoing disputes involving the sale of TikTok.

The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as the American tech partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Oracle, an enterprise software giant, is in talks to acquire social media company TikTok’s U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand assets, according to a person familiar with the matter.

When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he was certain that the awarding of a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was done fairly. The Pentagon awarded the contract to Microsoft in late October, and Amazon said there was “unmistakable bias” on the government’s part and it intended to challenge the decision in court. Esper recused himself...

The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose competitive bid drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals.

From industry stalwarts to high-profile politicians, seemingly everyone’s turning their backs against Amazon these days. Except one: Wall Street. Just this week, old players in two major categories — logistics and pharmacies — turned into foes. FedEx terminated its ground-delivery contract with Amazon, two months after ending its U.S. express shipping deal. Meanwhile, CVS and Walgreens were accused of unfairly...

Kawhi Leonard’s hot hand is sending the Raptors home to Toronto on the cusp of a startling upset for Canada. Leonard outdueled the Splash Brothers for 36 points and 12 rebounds, and the Raptors moved within a victory of the franchise’s first championship by winning a second straight game on Golden State’s home floor, beating the Warriors 105-92 on Friday...

The NBA Finals are set after the Toronto Raptors won the Eastern Conference championship on Saturday night and earned the right to play the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors. For the Raptors, it’ll be the first time on this stage; for the Warriors, it’ll be an 11th trip to the finals and fifth in a row, as they look...

Prosecutors have charged a California man in the death of a New Jersey couple killed in a chain reaction crash while on their way to their wedding.

U.S. government regulators are accusing software maker Oracle of engaging in discriminatory practices that resulted in thousands of its women, black and Asian employees being underpaid by more than $400 million. The allegations emerged Tuesday in a filing made in a two-year-old case that is being pursued by a part of the U.S. Labor Department that examines the pay practices...

The personality of American figure skater Vincent Zhou, who made his Olympic debut with a superb short program Friday, was neatly summed up by his social media response to a fan who recently asked what era he would visit if he could travel back in time. “If I time traveled,” he said, “I would likely end up in outer space...

The Kiwis claimed the oldest trophy in international sports Monday.

Government investigators looking into how Google pays its employees have accused the tech giant of shortchanging women doing similar work to men....
A U.S. Department of Labor official disclosed the agency’s allegations during a Friday court hearing in San Francisco....
“We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” Janette Wipper, a Labor Department regional director, testified, according...

The Le Méridien Philadelphia will get a million-dollar renovation — its first major update since it opened in 2010 — that will re-imagine the common and food-and-beverage areas, gearing the spaces toward the millennial traveler.

Issues related to a new financial accounting computer system have left thousands of Rutgers University vendors awaiting payment from the school.

Chris Beals, a Montgomery County native and Penn graduate, is president and general counsel of WeedMaps, a technology company focused on marijuana.

NBA and Turner Sports will deliver the first live basketball game on Tuesday in virtual reality.

A Warriors fan won a brand new BMW i3 with a halfcourt shot in the third quarter of Game 2 of the NBA Finals.