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MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Chicago, Illinois: Justice Data Lab: Unlocking Government Administrative Data. Austin, Texas: Oracle | NetSuite For Nonprofits. You like numbers? Thursday, May 11, 2017.

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MAY 24, 2022

Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

The summit will also include the Apache Software Foundation — the owner and maintainer of the Log4j library — and Oracle, owner of the Java software platform on which the Log4j library runs. In May 2021, well before the Log4j vulnerability was discovered, President Biden issued an executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Founding members include Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle. ” It will also foster a collaborative environment where utilities, startups, academics, and national labs can work together to address power-sector challenges using AI. Government is important because they do the permitting, licensing, and they provide regulations.

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APRIL 16, 2008

Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft) would enter the nonprofit market aggressively. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. Second, the US is the significantly wealthier than most nations. From a market perspective, I expected that some of the big software companies (e.g.

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MARCH 4, 2008

Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft) would enter the nonprofit market aggressively. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. Second, the US is the significantly wealthier than most nations. From a market perspective, I expected that some of the big software companies (e.g.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Prior to its ban, the Chinese-owned platform was accused of being under the influence of foreign government interests, with congressional members arguing its access to Americans' data presents a wide scale national security risk — civil rights groups, meanwhile, argued against the ban.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The government cited an injunction from a federal judge in Pennsylvania last month who wrote that the Commerce Department had likely overstepped its authority when it tried to ban transactions on the platform. The government has cited concerns about national security, as TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.

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TechNode

JANUARY 29, 2025

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the National Security Council (NSC) will review the potential national security implications of DeepSeeks launch and emphasized the governments goal of “ensuring US dominance in artificial intelligence.” ” On Jan. ” On Jan. ” On Jan.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

A tentative agreement appeared to be reached Saturday for a new TikTok entity, TikTok Global, part of a partnership with Oracle and Walmart, so the Commerce Department postponed the TikTok ban until September 27th. “I I have given the deal my blessing,” the president said. The Commerce Department did not immediately comment Sunday.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

After spending years battling over the Defense Department’s $10 billion JEDI cloud services contract , Microsoft and Amazon are fighting over another government deal. Now it’s the National Security Agency offering a contract that could pay up to $10 billion as it shifts away from on-premises servers to a commercial provider.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

President Trump said Saturday he had given a deal between TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart his “blessing,” prompting a one-week delay from the Commerce Department on TikTok’s ban. Oracle becomes a “trusted tech partner,” and will host all US user data, securing “associated computer systems.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

But the government’s lawyers argued that First Amendment claims by TikTok don’t apply, because the Trump administration considers the app a national security risk. On August 6th, President Trump issued an order saying the security concerns about TikTok and WeChat, both China-based apps, constituted a national emergency.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that TikTok and ByteDance are a national security risk, and the US Commerce Department issued an order to block downloads of TikTok in September. . — Brian Fung (@b_fung) December 5, 2020.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The reason, according to the company, is that it hasn’t heard from the committee in weeks about an imminent deadline for parent company ByteDance to sell off US assets over national security concerns. But the deal was never sanctioned by the Chinese government, and it’s been in limbo ever since.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The government also mischaracterized how TikTok stores US user data, Cloutier says. And Cloutier says if asked, TikTok would not comply with a request for user data from the Chinese government, another of the commerce department’s concerns. Oracle would become TikTok’s trusted security partner under the terms of the deal.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The TikTok-Trump saga began back in August, when President Trump issued an order saying the security concerns about TikTok and WeChat, both China-based apps, constituted a national emergency. But a day later, the president said he had approved “in concept” a bid from cloud computing giant Oracle to become TikTok’s “trusted tech partner.”

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

legislators first started banning TikTok from government devices , but it reached a fever pitch in 2024 when then-President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that would ban TikTok unless it divested from its parent company, ByteDance. Trump even said he would "like Larry [Ellison] to buy it," referring to Oracle chairman.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

President Trump said in August that TikTok and its parent company were a national security risk to the US, and issued the initial order requiring TikTok to sell its US business. The president then said he had approved “in concept” a deal with Oracle and Walmart that called for creating a new US-based entity, TikTok Global.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The US government has given video sharing platform TikTok another reprieve, but it’s not totally clear how the latest deadline extension will be enforced or what the penalties would be. But a day later, the president said he had approved “in concept” a bid from Oracle to become TikTok’s “trusted tech partner.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said new evidence the government presented did not change her opinion about the messaging app, owned by Chinese company Tencent app. President Trump issued an executive order in August to ban WeChat, invoking the Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also requires TikTok’s cloud service provider, Oracle, to cease hosting its US user data. The Indian government outlawed the app in June 2020, citing worries about data privacy and national security. However, Tiktok owner ByteDance has a different plan in mind.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

TikTok filed a suit against President Trump in August , arguing that Trump’s original order did not provide any evidence that TikTok was a national security threat to the US. Oracle and Walmart are the remaining candidates with a shot at a stake in the new TikTok company.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Trump declared TikTok and WeChat a “national emergency,” citing privacy and security concerns. The government likely exceeded IEEPA’s express limitations.”. However, in his opinion accompanying today’s decision, US district judge Carl Nichols said that “the government likely exceeded IEEPA’s express limitations.”

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While politicians have voiced concerns about national security risks posed by the app’s Chinese ownership, activists suggest a deeper agenda may be aimed at curbing pro-Palestinian content on the platform. In this case, the government couldn't meet that standard. The debate over banning TikTok has grown increasingly complex.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Zhang wrote: “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” wrote Zhang, who declined to talk to BuzzFeed News. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Governing. ? The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. President Trump earlier this month gave the deal his preliminary blessing as a way to address his administration’s national security concerns. The Chinese government could also nix it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

TikTok’s high-profile search for a US buyer is hitting a roadblock after weeks of public negotiations and months of national security debates. Microsoft , Oracle , and Triller have all put in bids to purchase TikTok’s operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (roughly 30 percent of worldwide users) to allay the concerns.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Governing. ? Brent Kendall at The Wall Street Journal has the story: Dozens of government antitrust lawyers are on teams investigating whether the search giant has used its dominance to stifle competition. Oracle is in talks to acquire TikTok , a move that would challenge Microsoft. Matthew Smith / Time ). (Sam Industry. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Governing. ? A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Oracle’s bid for TikTok doesn’t solve the Trump administration’s national security concerns. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

That’s what President Joe Biden did Wednesday when he signed his own order revoking these Trump-era bans and beginning the process to set new rules for software tied to the Chinese government. But in some ways, the Biden order could pose a more significant threat to TikTok and other apps with purported ties to the Chinese government.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. Governing. ? President Trump said he supports Oracle buying TikTok. was arrested on May 1 with dozens of knives in her car.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Governing. ? Oracle’s closeness with the Trump administration could prove helpful in its bid to buy TikTok. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is a prominent Trump supporter. TikTok and WeChat are being lumped together in the Trump’s administration’s attempt to crack down on national security threats from China.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. A letter sent to Trump on Wednesday by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and five other Republicans said the deal in its current reported form “leaves significant unresolved national security issues.”. Governing. ?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon banned and then unbanned TikTok from employees’ phones; Wells Fargo asked employees to remove TikTok from their phones; and the Democratic and Republican national committees found something to agree on : avoiding TikTok. He also declared TikTok a “national emergency,” which is honestly the kind of publicity you can’t buy.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators.”. A deal with Oracle, the enterprise software company, would be more of a data play. Governing. ? TikTok has surprised me with its cleverness before.

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