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Fired ByteDance Exec Says China Exerted ‘Supreme’ Data Control

A former executive at TikTok parent ByteDance Inc. who was fired in 2018 said in a lawsuit that the Chinese Communist Party had a special office within the company that gave it “supreme access” to all data, a backdoor channel that he said persisted even after US user data was walled off from individual engineers in China.

Larry Ellison Defeats Conflict Claim on Oracle-NetSuite Deal

Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison won a pension fund lawsuit over the company’s 2016 acquisition of rival software maker NetSuite Inc., as a judge ruled that the transaction was negotiated at arm’s length by a “fully-empowered special committee.”