It had earlier expanded export controls over rare earths as trade tensions with the United States simmer ahead of a possible meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping later this month.
A longtime Microsoft engineer is resigning after 13 years at the company, claiming he can no longer tolerate its decision to offer cloud computing services to the Israeli military.
Investors quickly grew fearful of heightened trade tensions as Trump appeared to cancel a planned meeting between himself and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this month.
Shares in Qualcomm, which is based in San Diego, Calif., fell 1.3% Friday morning after Chinese regulators opened an antitrust probe into the company's acquisition of Autotalks.
Even company insiders concede that TikTok's new iteration - spinning off the US portion of its global operations into a new company - is anything but normal.
Paramount Skydance is particularly worried about a possible Comcast bid because WBD's deal-savvy CEO David Zaslav already has a strategic relationship with Comcast.