TikTok Asks Judge to Extend the Deadline for Its Sale
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Francesca Billington is a dot.LA editorial intern. She's previously reported for KCRW, the Santa Monica Daily Press and local publications in New Jersey. Before joining dot.LA, she was a communications fellow at an environmental science research center in Sri Lanka. She graduated from Princeton in 2019 with a degree in anthropology.
The Trump administration's deadline for ByteDance to close a deal in the U.S. is around the corner and TikTok says it hasn't gotten an update in weeks.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had set November 12 as the last date to close a business deal, but it didn't specify what would happen if things fell through.
That's what led TikTok to file a petition in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday. They're calling for a review of CFIUS and a 30-day extension on the deadline.
"With the November 12 CFIUS deadline imminent and without an extension in hand, we have no choice but to file a petition in court to defend our rights and those of our more than 1,500 employees in the US," TikTok told the Associated Press in a written statement.
In September, Beijing-based ByteDance announced it would sell part of its business to Walmart and Oracle, a plan Trump approved. His administration calls TikTok a national security threat, accusing the video platform of sharing user data with the Chinese Communist government, which the company denies.
The move could buy the Chinese company time as Trump is set to leave office early next year. An advisor to president-elect Joe Biden told CNBC it was "too early to say" Biden's thoughts on the social media app.
Meanwhile, TikTok's former CEO Kevin Mayer, who left amid sustained pressure from the Trump administration, has joined Len Blavatnik's investment firm Access Industries as a senior advisor.
His role will place him at the center of media and entertainment deals — Access has stakes in giants like Warner Music Group, audio streaming service Deezer and DAZN, a sports streaming service. Mayer, a former Disney executive, left TikTok after just under three months on the job.
"I look forward to helping Access build on the success of its leading media and entertainment businesses as a key component of my future endeavors," Mayer said in a statement announcing the news.
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Watch: 'The End of the Antibiotic Era': How COVID-19 Has Changed the Landscape for Health Tech
Apr 14 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus has sped the adoption of telemedicine in the United States, eliminating barriers like insurance reimbursements. It's also shone a light on the need for faster vaccines and a need for greater investment in public health, experts said on a dot.LA virtual panel Tuesday that looked at how investors are responding to COVID-19.
A move to telemedicine "was a long time coming," said Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "A lot of doctors and institutions weren't comfortable with that" but now those concerns have been "blown out of the water." Since the pandemic erupted, two-thirds of UCLA medical visits have been done using telehealth.
<p>Klauser is also a medical director at San Dimas, Calif-based Korva Labs, which has worked with Curative Inc. over the last 18 days to test Los Angeles County first responders and support drive-thrus. He said the partnership has resulted in testing capacity moving from zero to 5,000 daily since the start.</p><p>That partnership was helped along by Llewellyn Cox, a general partner at MarsBio, a biotech and deep-tech venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies. Cox introduced the folks at Curative to Korva. Cox, who has cystic fibrosis, has kept an eye on the novel coronavirus from its earlier days. He convened a task force in the first week of March to try to address COVID-19 response issues like supply chain and access to testing kits.</p><p>Cox has since pivoted to looking at companies to help address the second and third wave of issues and technology to prevent another COVID-19 from happening.</p>
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<p>The novel coronavirus has led to a boom in business for companies in the healthcare world. At Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, a seed-stage healthcare-focused venture capital fund, 27 of its 29 companies in the portfolio are actually "better off" financially due to COVID-19, said Jay Goss, a general partner at the firm.<br></p><p>"We're being pulled to move faster even to the point of accelerating the timeline in the next fund, instead of slowing down," Goss said. "The world is more aware of the need for healthcare, it's always been there, but now more people are paying attention to it and less attention to the need for electric scooters, or other things."</p><p>Of the remaining two portfolio companies that have been impacted, one is a clinical trials-related company that has had to hit the pause button on their work to focus on COVID-19.</p><p>Prior to COVID-19, vaccines were not a business-savvy area of investment and were very hard to fund, but "that value metric has been turned upside down," Cox said. He said the long production cycles for something like the development of a vaccine — the flu vaccine takes nine months — is an area that could use improvement even now.</p><p>"This is a preview of the end of the antibiotic era, what a world without rapidly cheap, accessible (drugs) to fight off infection looks like," Cox said.</p><p>Other areas that have become of greater interest are food, agriculture and manufacturing, Cox said. </p><p>COVID-19 has also brought to light the lack of investment in public health — already evident from medical staffing shortages, the lack of affordable education, and the need for more on-the-ground community health efforts, the experts said.</p><p>Klausner noted that Italy didn't have a strong primary or middle healthcare system, so anybody with COVID-19 was hospitalized because they had built up the end-of-the-road investment in health services.</p><p>States have graduated medical students months early to get them to hospitals that need them. In the past few years, there has been some donors who have helped make medical education for doctors free, but those are stopgaps, Klausner said.</p><p>"We need to invest and understand that medical, nursing lab technicians, schools are not just training for those individuals (to) benefit by having a job, but also as part of our societal investment to have the type of people we need at a large enough level and large enough skillset to take care of us," Klausner said. "Our population is only aging and our needs are only increasing. We need investment in things like a public health corps."</p><p>Klausner served early in his career as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, a sort of CIA for public health. The program, he said, has been funded at 50 people since 1951 and no one knows it exists. </p><p>"As a society, we've allowed public health training and infrastructure to erode," Klausner said.</p><p>Goss said that the ability to address a surge in need should be fluid and those who are trained should somehow be able to be moved when that need is apparent, perhaps using a technological advancement similar to the system apps like Uber use to move needed rides from one area to another in real time.</p><p>Klausner added a few more predictions, the home is going to be "ascendant" and people will want to improve their homes and make them more comfortable for daily living, working, learning and exercise. </p><p>In terms of home health, "people generally prefer to be taken care of in their home, from physical therapy to your last days on Earth," Goss said. "Telemedicine has been helped and advanced more in the last six weeks than in the 144 years (since) we got the thing called a telephone."</p><ul class="ee-ul"></ul><h2>About the Participants: </h2>
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Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the Fielding School of Public Health.
<p>Dr. Klausner earned his Medical Degree from Cornell University Medical College with Honors in Research. He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the New York University—Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Klausner earned his Master's in Public Health with a focus on International Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. After that training, Dr. Klausner was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. Dr. Klausner completed his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington, Seattle.</p><img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://dot.la/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjkzMTc2Ny9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MDE4MzE3Nn0.75U2PNHbVoJAUaCzOC2VUERxLWKBIoWfu-mBLWuLoHo/image.png?width=1500&coordinates=150%2C166%2C150%2C166&height=2000" id="b90a7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7b9b2603f96e74fb0f147c1a1cc072b6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />
Jay Goss is General Partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Jay Goss, General Partner @ Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
<p><span id="selection-marker-1" class="redactor-selection-marker" data-verified="redactor"></span>Jay is a General Partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health. Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health is Southern California's leading Seed-stage healthcare-focused venture capital fund. The fund's investment thesis is that after 40+ years, healthcare is transitioning away from fee-for-service to value-based payments, and with that comes a massive amount of disruption. There will be no shortage of clinical operations and business challenges to solve in the coming decade, and entrepreneurs are already coming out of the woodwork to solve these problems. Moreover, countless business models are now for the first time commercially viable because the healthcare industry is embracing value-based payments. The fund counts among its investors 50+ healthcare senior executives, eager and extremely able to add value to the early stage companies in which the fund invests. Prior to launching Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, Jay operated dozens of early stage companies all over Southern California, and advised dozens more.<span id="selection-marker-2" class="redactor-selection-marker" data-verified="redactor"></span> </p><img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://dot.la/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjkyODcwNS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0OTQwMzA4NX0.Y02iqiH-GA2xGra95xfKbH1WiuZxGzoH-Jbg-CgxWyI/image.jpg?width=980" id="1b66e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9dc153bb3fd9f4eb0675b04fa1136a6a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />
Llewellyn Cox is a general partner at MarsBio
Llewellyn Cox, General Partner at MarsBio
<p>Llewellyn is an entrepreneur from Gillingham, Kent, England. He founded LabLaunch, the leading biotechnology incubator network in Southern California, and BioBuilt, a firm that assists early-stage companies in building lab space.Llewellyn received a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology at Cardiff University, before moving to New York City to perform postdoc research in neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College. Llewellyn is an adjunct professor at Keck Medicine of USC where he teaches translational biology and science communications.</p><img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://dot.la/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjkyODUxMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNTk1MDEwNn0.kgnPvygVD0MkEN6vEyBIUN5k3hl356umTTuKNUsIplM/image.jpg?width=1500&coordinates=0%2C29%2C0%2C29&height=2000" id="bd1f0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="14393c3c02f35554c8a618be21d6e643" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />
Rachel Uranga, is a reporter at dot.LA.
Rachel Uranga, Reporter @dot.LA
<p>Rachel covers the intersection of business, technology and culture. She is a former Mexico-based market correspondent at Reuters and has worked for several Southern California news outlets, including the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Los Angeles Daily News. She has covered everything from IPOs to immigration. Uranga is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and California State University Northridge. A Los Angeles native, she lives with her husband, son and their felines. </p>From Your Site Articles
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Here's the deal: the first segment of a three-part Joe Biden interview aired Wednesday on Snapchat's "Good Luck America." Parts two and three will follow on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Interviewer Peter Hamby did not mince words in asking Biden about his being perceived as "old, out of touch, and kind of lame."
<p>The avuncular presidential candidate, who has alternately been christened Dementia Joe, Creepy Joe and Sleepy Joe, retorted, "I don't have any problem comparing my energy level to Donald Trump, who I'm really resisting giving a nickname to." The 77-year-old later redoubled his display of vigor, proclaiming, "I can hardly wait to get out of being on my back porch here."</p><p>The democrat has had his plans upended by the coronavirus, like so many Americans. Biden has been forced to rely on his online presence since he's no longer able to hit the physical campaign trail. It's not exactly an ideal battleground for the former vice president: Biden's social media followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter total just 7% those of President Trump. (Snap does not publish such data.)</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Biden addressed the discrepancy on his Wednesday segment.<br/></p><p>"We're getting started late in the comparative sense," he said. "I'm sure we can do better on the internet. I'm positive of that...we're trying." </p><p>Snap claims that over half of the U.S. Gen Z population watches news content on its Discover platform. Across its entire app, the company says it reaches 90% of all 13-24 year-olds in the U.S., and 75% of all 13-34 year-olds. Biden spent much of Wednesday's segment expressing sympathy toward those young people whom he surely hopes will help him win in November. </p><p>"Young people want the truth and they want authenticity," he observed. "And younger Americans have had a really tough run of it. Millennials came of age defined by 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis. Generation Z has grown up at a time of school shooting, crushing student debt."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Political pundits have questioned of late whether Biden's message will resonate with younger voters.<br/></p><p>The conveyance of that message by Snap is part of the L.A.-based company's wider content strategy, which includes numerous efforts to provide credible news to its relatively impressionable audience.</p>
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<p>According to a company spokesperson, Good Luck America was "born from the desire to help our Snapchat community understand a confusing time in American politics." Launched in 2016, it was Snap's first original series. Since then, interview guests have included Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and John McCain.</p><p>Earlier this year Snap rolled out multiple resources on its Discover platform "to ensure our community has consistent and reliable resources for the latest updates on COVID-19." As of April, over 40% of Gen Z in the U.S. had engaged with some kind of COVID-19 related content, such as the videos on Snap's dedicated "Coronavirus: Updates" channel, according to the company.</p><p>To help keep content free of deceptive or deliberately false information, Snap's Discover platform does not include an open feed for unvetted publishers, the company says. Instead it curates such content in partnership with "trusted news organizations," the World Health Organization and Britain's National Health Service.</p><p>Biden's appearance follows Anthony Fauci's last month. Snap declined to release viewing figures for either interview.</p><p>---</p><p><em>Sam Blake covers media and entertainment for dot.LA. Find him on Twitter @hisamblake and email him at samblake@dot.LA</em><br></p>
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