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ANOTHER JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP'S TIKTOK BAN; APP STILL IN LIMBO

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners.

AMERICANS CAN PAY THEIR CREDIT CARD BILLS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?

The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from keeping up with their credit card payments, thanks in large part to government relief programs passed by Congress earlier this year.

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE TO MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO TEXAS

Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it is moving its global headquarters to the Houston area from California, where the company’s roots go back to the founding of Silicon Valley decades ago.

DISCOVERY'S REALITY-HEAVY STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCHES IN JAN.

Discovery is joining the increasingly crowded streaming fray with its own reality-focused service Discovery Plus that will include shows from the Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its other networks. It launches Jan 4.

WAITING FOR PASSENGERS, AMERICAN PUTS BOEING MAX IN THE AIR

American Airlines is taking its long-grounded Boeing 737 Max jets out of storage, updating key flight-control software, and flying the planes in preparation for the first flights with paying passengers later this month.

SEAN PARKER OK'D TO BUY STAKE IN PETER JACKSON'S VFX STUDIO

New Zealand authorities have approved tech billionaire Sean Parker’s purchase of a onethird stake in film director Peter Jackson’s visual effects studio.

US, ESTONIA PARTNERED TO SEARCH OUT CYBER THREAT FROM RUSSIA

In a modern twist on old-fashioned war games, the U.S. military dispatched cyber fighters to Estonia this fall to help the small Baltic nation search out and block potential cyber threats from Russia.

PHISHING PLOY TARGETS COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION EFFORT

IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyber espionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization’s initiative for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries.

FOXCONN NOT EXPECT TO MEET HIRING GOALS IN NEXT 3 YEARS

Foxconn Technology Group is not expected to receive tax credits in the next three fiscal years, continuing its failure to meet goals for hiring and investing in its Wisconsin manufacturing complex, according to state officials.

DATA IS KING ON WALL STREET; 2 PROVIDERS JOIN IN $44B DEAL

The value that Wall Street places on access to billions of bytes of data, rather than old-school stock picking, became abundantly clear as two of the biggest providers of such information become one in the biggest takeover of the year.

A YEAR IN 60 SECS: TIKTOK LISTS TOP VIDEOS, CREATORS OF 2020

From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B’s rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances, and memes in 60 seconds or less.

Airbnb Hopes To Raise Up To $2.6B In Mid-December IPO

Airbnb hopes to raise as much as $2.6 billion in its initial public stock offering this month, betting investors will see its home-sharing model as the future of travel.

POWERFUL M1: BENCHMARKS REVAL INCREDIBLE POWER OF NEW CHIP

Though it was always Apple’s intention to create leaner, faster machines when it transitioned to its own custom chip, even Craig Federighi revealed he was shocked when benchmarks were revealed. M1 takes the Mac in a whole new direction, revolutionizing computing once again.

HAWAII SEEKS TO BE SEEN AS A REMOTE WORKPLACE WITH A VIEW

Software engineer Raymond Berger begins his work day at 5 a.m., before the sun comes up over Hawaii.

THE PANDEMIC IS CHANGING HOLLYWOOD, MAYBE FOREVER

“No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding.

UK AUTHORIZES PFIZER CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FOR EMERGENCY USE

British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic.

SALESFORCE TO BUY WORK CHAT SERVICE SLACK FOR $27.7 BILLION

Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against longtime industry powerhouse Microsoft.

GM RETHINKS PLANNED STAKE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE MAKER NIKOLA

General Motors will not be taking a stake in the electric vehicle company Nikola, and the company said that it was scuttling one of its marquee vehicles, an electric and hydrogen-powered pickup, after GM pulled technological support from the project.

DOORDASH LOOKING FOR A VALUATION OF NEARLY $30B

DoorDash is looking for a valuation of nearly $30 billion when it takes itself public, reflecting how integral food delivery has become in millions of people’s lives during the pandemic.

CHINA'S SPACE AMBITIONS: ROBOT ON MARS, A HUMAN ON THE MOON

China’s landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is planning to put humans back on the lunar surface.

CALIFORNIA PROVIDING $500M IN VIRUS AID FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

California will provide temporary tax relief and $500 million in aid to small businesses struggling because of coronavirus outbreak restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week.

BLACK FRIDAY SEES RECORD ONLINE AS US SHOPPERS STAY HOME

Black Friday online sales hit a new record this year as pandemic-wary Americans filled virtual carts instead of real ones.

Amazon's European Adventure Could Be Different From Google's

There are signs that the company and the European Union are working to avoid an antitrust showdown

HOSPITALS CAN CARE FOR MEDICARE PATIENTS AT HOME IN PANDEMIC

Hospitals will be allowed to care for Medicare patients in their own homes during the pandemic under a government program announced Wednesday to help hospitals deal with the latest surge.

PENGUIN TO BUY SIMON & SCHUSTER, CREATE PUBLISHING GIANT

German media giant Bertelsmann said that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape the U.S. publishing industry.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DENIES PLANNED MINE NEAR ALASKA FISHERY

The Trump administration on Wednesday effectively killed a contentious proposed mine in Alaska, a gold and copper prospect once envisioned to be nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and could produce enough waste to fill an NFL stadium nearly 3,900 times — all near the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.

THE PANDEMIC IS CHANGING HOLLYWOOD, MAYBE FOREVER

“No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding.

GOOGLE FACES UK SCRUTINY OVER NEW ADVERTISING DATA REVAMP

Google faces fresh regulatory scrutiny in Britain over plans to revamp its ad data system, after an industry lobbying group complained to the competition watchdog that the changes would cement the U.S. tech giant’s online dominance.

TWEET ON SPARE CHANGE GENERATES BIG MONEY FOR VIRUS AID

Andy Larsen is a sports writer, but with so many games scratched during the pandemic he has spent a lot of time digging into coronavirus data and its sobering implications.

EUROPEAN REGULATOR MOVES TO CLEAR BOEING 737 FOR FLIGHT

European regulators took a step closer to letting the Boeing 737 Max fly again, publishing a proposed airworthiness directive that could see the aircraft cleared within weeks after being grounded for nearly two years over deadly crashes.