English Premier League Kicks Off New China Deal With Tencent

Football clubs face the usual race against time to secure deals ahead of Monday’s transfer deadline day - but there is an added incentive to sign players from the EU ahead of the January window.Monday is the final day clubs can sign non-UK based EU players and get them pre-settled status ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.Come January 1, the UK’s transition period to exit the European Union will have ended, meaning freedom of movement will also have finished.Nothing is yet to be

As North America's box office crumples, China's theatrical film business is back in an enormous way. A collection of high-profile local films released in China over the past week to coincide with the country's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period, which lasts eight days.

Rebecca Davis editorWith U.S. studio tentpoles dropping out of the theatrical calendar, Chinese blockbusters may find a rare opportunity to gain some traction abroad.

straight to your inboxOle Gunnar Solskjaer admits he is 'worried' about the survival of lower league clubs after the British government scuppered plans for supporters to return to stadiums next month.A second wave of coronavirus infections has led to a tightening of restrictions, including the halting of plans for spectators to return to sports venues in England from October 1 on a socially-distanced basis.

straight to your inboxManchester City's upcoming visit to newly-promoted Leeds United has been selected for live television coverage.Pep Guardiola's men will face Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds side in front of the Sky Sports cameras.The match at Elland Road will be played on Saturday, October 3, kicking off at 5.30pm.That is the only game involving City that features in the latest round of live TV fixtures announced by the Premier League.The Premier League said in a statement: "Following the UK

straight to your inboxManchester United's home game against Tottenham Hotspur has been selected for live television coverage by Sky Sports.The Premier League match at Old Trafford will be played on Sunday, October 4, kicking off at 4.30pm.In a statement the league also confirmed new kick-off times for midweek matches.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThere’s a new sign the Chinese government is leaning toward spiking the deal to transfer control of TikTok from ByteDance to U.S. owners, including Oracle and Walmart.An editorial Wednesday in China Daily, the state-run newspaper of the Beijing regime, called the agreement to form TikTok Global — which was forced by an executive order by President Trump under the guise of protecting U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe fate of TikTok isn’t fully settled yet.In a sign that the talks over the ownership transfer of TikTok to U.S.-controlled parties — forced by the Trump administration — could potentially get derailed, Oracle and ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, are making different claims about who will own what in the newly reincarnated TikTok Global.On Sunday, ByteDance said in a statement that it would own 80% of TikTok Global, with Oracle and Walmart collectively taking

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorWall Street is warming to a TikTok deal despite a continued lack of clarity, happy to keep a popular, fast-growing advertising platform humming along and skirt a brewing tech cold war between the U.S. and China.“This will be a relief to technology investors to have this high drama soap opera now in the rear view mirror,” said Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.

Also Read: TikTok 'Disappointed' With US Ban on New App Downloads, Pledges to Protect User Privacy and SafetyTikTok Global, which TheWrap reported last week would be looking to file an initial public offering sometime in 2021, would have five board seats, with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon serving as director.Bytedance would retain ownership and control of its code in its deal with Oracle; the software giant, along with controlling American user data, would be allowed to review the source code and

TikTok will seemingly continue to operate in the US after President Donald Trump gave his “blessing” to a proposed deal that will see the video-sharing app partnering with Oracle.The app, along with WeChat, had previously faced a download ban after the US government said they were both  “active participants in China’s civil-military fusion” and alleged that they collect “vast swaths of data from users, including network activity, location data, and browsing and search histories.”But it will now

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe complex wrangling over what happens next to TikTok — which has become a geopolitical football punted around by the Trump administration — continues apace.As a separate entity TikTok, the popular short-form video app, would file for an initial public offering on a U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorOracle could become the “technology provider” for TikTok under a deal reached with China’s ByteDance, Oracle said Monday, under a Trump administration order forcing the divestiture of TikTok U.S. assets.The software company’s official confirmation comes after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC Monday that the U.S.

76 Days— which follows exhausted doctors and nurses in Wuhan, China struggling to cope as the deadly global outbreak of the new coronavirus first originated — will be eagerly anticipated at the Toronto Film Festival as it's the first documentary from ground zero of the COVID-19 crisis to reach movie theaters. The irony is the ongoing global pandemic will keep New York City-based co-director Hao Wu from physically attending the world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept.

straight to your inboxLiverpool legend Jamie Carragher has issued his verdict on Manchester United's chances of winning the Premier League title in 2020-21.United finished third last season following an impressive second half of the campaign and optimism is high ahead of the new season. The signing of Donny van de Beek has caught the eye and there is also plenty of excitement around Bruno Fernandes ahead of his first full season in English football.