Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, August 3rd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Tic-Toc has not been banned by Trump, but it came close this weekend, while Microsoft almost walked

away from buying Tik-Tok this weekend, but it looks like it's back on board now and might buy

non-Chinese Tik-T-Dok operations soon.

Google invests in ADT.

The new Pixel 4A's are here,

and a profile of the alleged teenage Twitter Hack

mastermind who has now been arrested.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So this is another

one of those stories where it turns out it was a good thing that we missed the story initially so that we could avoid the

whole back and forth over the weekend and now I can give you a nice clean

summary of everything that's happened. Since we last spoke, late on Friday word came down that President Trump was indeed planning to sign an executive order

directing China's bite dance to divest itself of ownership of Tik-Toc

or the app would be banned in the US. The next day

word also came down that President Trump told reporters he would be signing that order on

Saturday though that never ended up happening. In the

meantime, word leaked out that Bight Dance had agreed to sell its US operations of

Tik-Toc to Microsoft, which had a lot of people saying Microsoft.

Why would Microsoft want TikTok? Yes, Microsoft does have a social network with LinkedIn, Tik-Toc teen social media none of this seems to be

up Microsoft's alley right like no one could see how they could fit Tik-Toc well into their existing business. But my thinking was maybe it's

just the thing of a major social network doesn't become available every day for acquiring and maybe Microsoft can't pass up the

opportunity to immediately become a major player in the space, especially by acquiring

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