Meta rolls out paid verification option for Facebook and Instagram users in US
By Jennifer Korn Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account. Meta on…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Facebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account. Meta on…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business The United States government is pulling out all the stops to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing,…
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business When Google unveiled its new Pixel 7 smartphone lineup earlier this month, the devices looked largely the same…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Google may be the giant in the digital advertising world, but even it is not immune to the impact that the economic…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Kanye West is acquiring Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by many conservatives. Parler’s…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke and Chris Isidore, CNN Business Apple workers in Oklahoma City have voted to form the second-ever labor union at one of the…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In the past two months, Apple, Google and Samsung have all unveiled their newest smartphones and other devices…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In the past two months, Apple, Google and Samsung have all unveiled their newest smartphones and other devices…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Federal authorities are investigating Elon Musk in connection with his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the social…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Truth Social, the social media app backed by former President Donald Trump, has been approved for the Google Play Store, Google…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The US government is poised to ban all future telecom equipment produced by Huawei and ZTE, two Chinese technology giants, from…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Apple workers in Oklahoma City are set to vote this week on whether to form the second-ever labor union at one…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A federal appeals court has agreed to suspend enforcement of Texas’ social media law restricting content moderation, in the…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A federal appeals court has agreed to suspend enforcement of Texas’ social media law restricting content moderation, in the…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Microsoft’s most expensive Surface device is about to get even pricier. At a press event on Wednesday,…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In April, a grassroots worker group made history by gaining enough votes to form the first US union at an Amazon…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Meta’s newest virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, is a slick, powerful device. It can display text and…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business While seemingly every social media app is copying TikTok, TikTok now appears to be copying Amazon’s…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Meta’s newest virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, is a slick, powerful device. It can display text and…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Spam and fake accounts are more prevalent on Twitter than on comparable social platforms, according to a…
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN As tensions between China and Taiwan simmer at their highest point in decades, officials in both places have clashed in recent…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The countdown is now on for Elon Musk and Twitter to close their $44 billion acquisition deal by October 28 or be forced…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business After spending months attempting to get out of his deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk officially owns the hugely influential…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Binance, which describes itself as the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is the latest company to be impacted by a major…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The judge overseeing the acquisition dispute between Elon Musk and Twitter on Thursday ruled to pause the legal…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Lawyers for Elon Musk and Twitter have agreed to postpone the Tesla CEO’s deposition in the court fight over their…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Google on Thursday unveiled its new Pixel 7 smartphone lineup and its first-ever Pixel smartwatch, packed with…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon said Thursday it plans to hire 150,000 new employees across the United States to meet demand ahead of the…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Google on Thursday unveiled its new Pixel 7 smartphone lineup and its first-ever Pixel smartwatch, packed with…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Nearly three months after Elon Musk told Twitter he wanted out of his $44 billion agreement to buy the social media…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk appears to be closer to completing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter than at any point since he first…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon suspended dozens of workers at its only unionized warehouse on Tuesday, one day after they organized a…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business A board seat accepted and then rejected. A stunning $44 billion takeover offer with uncertain financing. And a…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business The White House on Tuesday released a set of guidelines it hopes will spur companies to make and deploy artificial…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Micron on Tuesday said it would invest up to $100 billion over the next two decades to build a massive…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk on Monday sent a letter to Twitter proposing to follow through with his deal to buy the company at the…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The European Union is one step closer to forcing Apple and other electronics vendors to use a single charging standard for devices…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Parag Agrawal took over as Twitter’s CEO last November following co-founder Jack Dorsey’s surprise…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Elon Musk drew backlash on Monday from Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Elon Musk drew backlash on Monday from Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of failed blood testing startup Theranos who was convicted of fraud earlier this year, may…
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Amazon on Monday launched a new shopping portal called Amazon Access that is designed for shoppers receiving…
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Dream, a YouTube star with more than 30 million subscribers, has finally revealed his face after hiding behind a…
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft, CNN Texas-based commercial rocket company Firefly launched a rocket into space Friday morning, about a year after a previous attempt…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Anyone watching the first episode of “Ring Nation” this week would have seen short clips of a man…
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla will hold its second annual AI Day in Palo Alto, California, Friday evening. The six-hour event will include…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business If you’ve ever wanted to use artificial intelligence to quickly design a hybrid between a duck and a corgi, now is…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Days before publicly announcing his investment in Twitter, Elon Musk texted with Jack Dorsey. The former Twitter CEO…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Artificial intelligence is getting better and better at generating an image in response to a handful of words, with…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN In emotional testimony on Thursday, Robbie Parker, the parent of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, recounted the violent threats…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN In emotional testimony on Thursday, Robbie Parker, the parent of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, recounted the violent threats…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Google plans to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia in January, a little more than three years after it…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business California is attempting to stymie abortion prosecutions in other states by making it illegal for Silicon…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business California is attempting to stymie abortion prosecutions in other states by making it illegal for Silicon…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Google plans to shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia in January, a little more than three years after it…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Satellites that are no longer in service must get out of the sky far more quickly under a new rule adopted by US federal…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon on Wednesday said it is raising the average starting pay for its warehouse workers and delivery drivers…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Google on Wednesday said it has begun rolling out an option for users to request excluding search results featuring…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The United States has soundly defeated Russia in an election to control a United Nations body responsible for shaping global…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon said Thursday it plans to hire 150,000 new employees across the United States to meet demand ahead of the…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google is making it easier to find specific dishes at nearby restaurants, whether it’s an ahi tartare, soup…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a collection of product updates that tie together its vast suite of services and…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Shares of Apple fell 4% in early trading Wednesday amid concerns about demand for the company’s latest…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon is temporarily pausing operations at some of its facilities as Hurricane Ian barrels towards Florida, the…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Shares of Apple fell 4% in early trading Wednesday amid concerns about demand for the company’s latest…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky. Israeli-founded company…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Apple has removed VKontakte, a top Russian social media platform, from its app store, according to the app’s developer.…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky. Israeli-founded company…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business It began by mailing out DVDs, then evolved to become a production and streaming powerhouse. Now Netflix appears…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business “Salt” resembles many science-fiction films from the ’70s and early ’80s, complete with 35mm…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Apple has removed VKontakte, a top Russian social media platform, from its app store, according to the app’s developer.…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Facebook parent company Meta announced Tuesday it had detected and shut down two separate networks of fake accounts…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, Clare Duffy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal did not sit for depositions…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Parag Agrawal took over as Twitter’s CEO last November following co-founder Jack Dorsey’s surprise…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The UK said Monday it could impose a multimillion-dollar fine on TikTok after the government found the short-form video platform…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The UK said Monday it could impose a multimillion-dollar fine on TikTok after the government found the short-form video platform…
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Apple has started making its new iPhone 14 in India, as the technology giant looks to diversify its supply chain away…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business When Iranian authorities pulled the plug on the internet in 2019 amid anti-government protests, the…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn If you liked “Guitar Hero” but wished it had more brass instruments, you’re in luck. A new rhythm game called…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business It began by mailing out DVDs, then evolved to become a production and streaming powerhouse. Now Netflix appears…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Kittyhawk, the electric air taxi startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, announced Wednesday that it…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy must testify in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission probe into whether the company…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Florida has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether states may force social media companies to host content they would…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Florida has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether states may force social media companies to host content they would…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Live-streaming giant Twitch on Tuesday said it will take additional steps to crack down on unlicensed gambling content…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Nearly one year after Microsoft launched its flagship Windows 11, the tech giant has officially rolled out its…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN TikTok has begun to require “mandatory verification” for political accounts based in the United States and will be…
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Saudi Arabia is planning to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a space capsule from Elon Musk’s SpaceX,…
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Saudi Arabia is planning to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a space capsule from Elon Musk’s SpaceX,…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple said it is working on a software fix after some users who recently purchased an iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission is taking a closer look at Amazon’s proposed acquisition of iRobot, the company that produces…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Hackers have stolen around $160 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto market maker Wintermute, the company said…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Hackers have stolen around $160 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto market maker Wintermute, the company said…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s lawyers are set to question Elon Musk in a deposition that could last up to three day…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Regulators have spent years trying to make big tech companies pay for the ways they harvest and, at times, abuse…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey will be questioned on Tuesday morning by lawyers for the company and Elon…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Rockstar Games confirmed on Monday that hackers had leaked some unreleased footage from its next iteration of…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Uber has linked the cybersecurity incident it disclosed last week to hackers affiliated with the Lapsus$ gang, a group accused of…
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