Tue. 07/07 – Will The US Government Ban TikTok?

TikTok pulls it’s app completely for the Hong Kong market. But could the US ban TikTok in the US market? And India shows us what happens when TikTok gets banned. Palantir is about to IPO. A new video compression standard is actually a big deal. And Alphabet’s Loon “moonshot” hits a major milestone.

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Links:

• TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong (Axios)
• U.S. is ‘looking at’ banning TikTok and Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says (CNBC)
• India’s TikTok shutdown has left careers and fortunes in tatters (Wired)
• Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO (TechCrunch)
• Palantir Technologies Files to Go Public (NYTimes)
• Fraunhofer’s VVC promises to reduce video file sizes by 50% to improve mobile network efficiency (VentureBeat)
• 73. "Father" of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg (Internet History Podcast)
• U.S. tech chiefs to testify before House antitrust panel on July 27: committee (Reuters)
• A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet (NYTimes)