The TikTok saga hots up
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After shunning Microsoft, will a deal with Oracle work? The BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani joins Rory Cellan-Jones and Jane Wakefield in the tent to discuss what the US and China want out of a deal for TikTok. Plus: An earthquake in the computer chip industry - why selling chip designer Arm to US firm Nvidia is proving controversial. And as Facebook launches a new VR headset and PlayStation and Xbox go head to head, what is the future of gaming? Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's video games editor, discusses.
(Photo: TikTok logo displayed on a phone screen, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:41.4 | No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends in |
| 0:46.1 | the technology sector. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week the TikTok saga hots up is the |
| 0:52.7 | Chinese video service that's huge with teens really getting together with Oracle, |
| 0:57.8 | which is big with, well, enterprise software enthusiasts? |
| 1:02.1 | A big week for the games industry. |
| 1:04.2 | Is Facebook's Oculus finally making VR hot? |
| 1:07.3 | Or should we be more excited about Sony's cloud gaming offer? |
| 1:12.0 | And an earthquake in the computer chip industry. |
| 1:15.3 | Will NVIDIA's takeover of Arm destroy the business model of what's being called the Switzerland of chip design? |
| 1:22.9 | Joining me to chew over all of these stories and more is BBC technology reporter Jane Wakefield. Hi, Jane. |
| 1:29.1 | Hello, Rory. So what do you've been up to this week? So I've been looking into the case of yet |
| 1:33.3 | another disgruntled ex-Facebook employee and we'll hear more about that later. And we'll get you |
| 1:39.1 | chiming in on everything else. Here's a taste of what's coming up. I think it's an absolute disaster |
| 1:43.8 | for Cambridge, UK and Europe. |
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