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Welcome to the TechBrew right home for Friday, January 23rd, 2026.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Okay, maybe the whole TikTok thing is a done deal at long last.

Amazon is planning another major round of layoffs.

Are Epic Games and Google doing an end run around the judge, Capital One acquires Brex,

and, of course, the weekend long-read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

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All right, I think it's finally, finally, finally done. BiteDance has struck a deal with a group of

non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok U.S. entity and avoid a federal ban, thereby

concluding this six-year legal saga, I think. Get back to me on that. TikTok's new majority

U.S. owned joint venture includes investors' Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's

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