Tech News Weekly 161

The gift of surveillance, TikTok's testing 3-minute videos

• Alex Wilhelm from Techcrunch discussed Salesforce's acquisition of Slack and what kind of competition they face from Microsoft Teams.
• Thomas Smith from Debugger warns gift-givers of buying their loved ones tech gifts that also act as potential surveillance devices.
• Abrar Al-Heeti from CNET shares an experimental feature in TikTok that is bringing three minute videos to the platform for the first time.
• Warner Brothers announced that it would release its entire 2021 film on HBO Max on the same day as movie theaters.
• Twitter has put the new threaded replies feature to bed after users complained they were difficult to follow.

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Links

• Salesforce Buys Slack in a $27.7B Megadeal
• Salesforce Slumps as Its Post Slack Selloff Continues
• A Gift Guide to This Holiday Season’s Creepiest Surveillance Gadgets
• TikTok Is Reportedly Experimenting with 3-Minute Videos
• Warner Bros. Will Release All of Its New 2021 Movies Simultaneously on HBO Max
• Twitter Turns off Threaded Replies Because They Made Conversations Hard to Read