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President Trump has plans to order China’s ByteDance, the owner of hit social video app  TikTok,   to divest from the company, according to new reporting from  Bloomberg . The app is increasingly a target of  U.S. security concerns  over its Chinese ownership. After the initial news, reports  bubbled   up  that Microsoft is in talks to buy the Chinese social network, which has a  massive footprint  in the U.S. and beyond. TikTok itself is not available in China and Chinese users instead use Douyin, a similar ByteDance-owned app specific to the country. While little is known about what such a sale could mean or if the president would really play any role, the event would send huge waves through the tech world. TikTok is one of the only meaningful outside competitors for U.S.-based social networks like YouTube and Facebook. It’s also not clear if the sale would somehow spin out the company’s U.S. business or if TikTok’s broad internat...

U.S. surpasses China with most coronavirus cases worldwide Source :  BBC        The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country with at least 82,404 positive tests. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, the US overtook China (81,782 cases) and Italy (80,589).The grim milestone came as President Donald Trump predicted the nation would get back to work “pretty quickly”, after 3.3 million layoffs. More than 1,100 people with Covid-19 have died in the US. What did President Trump say? At a White House briefing on Thursday afternoon, Mr Trump said: “They have to go back to work, our country has to go back, our country is based on that and I think it’s going to happen pretty quickly. “We may take sections of our country, we may take large sections of our country that aren’t so seriously affected and we may do it that way.” He added: “A lot of people misinterpret when ...

COVID-19: GWCL introduces temporary billing system for customers COPIED The Management of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has introduced a temporary billing regime to its bill customers in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus. In a press release, GWCL said customers will for the next few months be billed on estimated consumption, based on average consumption from January to March 2020. “The Management of Ghana Water Company Limited has introduced a temporary billing regime to bill our customers on an average of their last three months’ consumption. Thus, all GWCLs customers will for the next few months, be billed on estimated consumption, based on an average of their consumption from January to March 2020.” The company further said the decision is to reduce the frequent visits of its Meter Readers in order to curb the spread of the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in the country. “This has become necessary so as to reduce the frequency of visits by our Meter Readers ...