ByteDance urges U.S. to allow Microsoft-TikTok deal

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 11:36 a.m.

From the BBC World Service: U.S. tech giant Microsoft has confirmed that it is continuing talks to purchase the U.S. operations of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok. Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, sees profits plunge amid protests in Hong Kong, adding to COVID-19 pressures. And, two years on from a deadly bridge collapse in Genoa, the Italian city has inaugurated its replacement on the key transport route.