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To: marcher who wrote (162717)	9/19/2020 4:22:44 AM
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More interesting news, that Team China, having banned a whole lot of Team USA software / app companies, is understood to be readying entities list, backstopped by nuclear option of rare earth embargo for national security reasons, shall retaliate against the Trump’s moves against wonderful WeChat and play-toy TikTok What the measures could be we can only guess Sovereign seizure of MSFT coding? Banning Bloomberg? Booting out Oracle? or nothing as in no need. The boys are certainly trying to break things Meantime WeChat enjoys download surge. (1) Info-ed all family and friends in USA who uses WeChat, to disable automatic update of WeChat by Setting > General > Background App Refresh (find WeChat and disable), else the App goes awry come Sunday (2) Go to App Store, download WeCom, and activate link to WeChat so that all contacts are captured, thus enabling more secure spying by Tencent, some might say, and others might be thankful that they maintain contacts w/ family and friends I downloaded WeCom by TenCent from App Store, set up my entity, clicked on link to WeChat and automatically ported over all WeChat contacts, as have family and friends in USA using WeChat, and am now enjoying all WeChat functions plus accompanying office functions... sweet ... very interesting app ... some might recommend it to Lockheed, Boeing, DARPA, NSA, CIA, JPM, GS, etc etc :0) Frankly if I were in charge of Oracle I would get the USA WeChat JV approved by the Trump in a hurry and go after Teams Google, WhatApp, Microsoft, etc etc. The WeChat / WeCom apps are fantastic all-in-one convenient. WeCom is not banned in USA yet, at least not starting tomorrow Relationship contact from TenCent, upon sign-on, contacted by text offering help if needed. No need. Too easy. Once TenCent offers secure quantum internet messaging via Team China Mozi quantum satellite, all who desires security from Uncle Sam shall sign up in droves. bloomberg.com China Says It Will Act If U.S. Persists on WeChat, TikTok Ban bloomberg.com WeChat iPhone Downloads Surge in the U.S. Ahead of Trump Ban Gerrit De Vynck 19 September 2020, 03:51 GMT+8 IPhone users in the U.S. are rushing to install messaging app WeChat days before President Donald Trump is set to ban downloads in the country. WeChat downloads surged to make it the 100th most-downloaded app in the U.S. on Friday, according to mobile analytics firm SensorTower. It has typically ranked between 1,000th and 1,500th this year. Friday is the first time the app has entered the top 500 so far in 2020, a spokesperson for SensorTower said in an email. The U.S. government on Friday moved to ban WeChat, run by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., and another popular Chinese-owned app TikTok, citing national security concerns. The prohibitions are slated to take effect on Sunday, and will prevent U.S. consumers for downloading the apps or installing updates. WeChat will also be hit on Sunday with a ban on using American companies to run transactions and conduct internet traffic, meaning people still using the app will likely experience slowdowns and glitches because third-party tech services that keep it running won’t work anymore. “WeChat U.S. for all practical purposes will be shut down,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Fox Business. TikTok’s ranking as the fourth-most popular app on the iPhone store was unchanged on Friday, SensorTower said. It hasn’t dropped out of the top 15 for all of 2020. The video-sharing app’s owner ByteDance Ltd. is negotiating a deal to hand control of its U.S. operations and data to Oracle Corp. in order to satisfy U.S. concerns that the data of Americans who use the app could fall into the hands of the Chinese government. TikTok will still be able to do business with American companies until Nov. 12. That means the app, which is extremely popular with young Americans, will likely keep working for users until after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Chinese officials, who will have to approve the final TikTok deal, have called the U.S. actions against the two apps “economic bullying.” (Updates with quote from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in fourth paragraph) Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE