FTC drops Mark Zuckerberg from lawsuit seeking to block Meta’s latest VR acquisition
By Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission has agreed to remove Mark Zuckerberg from a lawsuit the agency filed last month to stop…
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Meet the former Twitter exec blowing the whistle on the company
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Nearly 25 years ago, a young computer programmer named Peiter “Mudge” Zatko told Congress that the internet…
Continue Reading Instagram testing a new feature that looks just like rival BeReal
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Over the years, Facebook has used Instagram to compete with rivals like Snapchat and TikTok by cloning their…
Continue Reading Yelp to begin prominently labeling crisis pregnancy centers to avoid confusion
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Yelp on Tuesday said it is introducing a new label to more clearly identify crisis pregnancy centers, which do not…
Continue Reading ExpressJet Airlines, formerly under United, files for bankruptcy
By Jennifer Korn ExpressJet Airlines, which calls itself a “reboot” of the company formerly flying as Delta Connection and United…
Continue Reading Twitter is vulnerable to Russian and Chinese influence, whistleblower says
By Brian Fung, CNN Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to exploitation by foreign governments in ways that threaten US national security, and may…
Continue Reading What the Twitter whistleblower could mean for Elon Musk’s takeover deal
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk’s monthslong effort to buy — and then to get out of buying — Twitter has been marked by a range of…
Continue Reading Elon Musk is planning a subtle change to Twitter that could make it harder to stop the bots
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Elon Musk has been saying for months that he wants to stamp out spam and fake accounts on Twitter, but a subtle change…
Continue Reading Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies
By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside, CNN Business Portraits by…
Continue Reading Meet the former Twitter exec blowing the whistle on the company
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Nearly 25 years ago, a young computer programmer named Peiter “Mudge” Zatko told Congress that the internet…
Continue Reading Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as legal battle heats up
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Elon Musk has subpoenaed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as part of his effort to fight a lawsuit from the…
Continue Reading Twitter warns employees that their bonuses could be halved this year
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Twitter is warning employees that their bonuses might be half of what was originally expected at the start of…
Continue Reading Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg has tied the knot
By Rob McLean, CNN Business Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg tied the knot with businessman Tom Bernthal over the weekend. Sandberg — who announced in…
Continue Reading They built their businesses on Instagram. Then the platform changed
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business After losing her construction job early in the pandemic, Kaitlin Tokar decided to try selling some of her vintage…
Continue Reading CEO famed for higher pay advocacy exits after sexual assault allegations
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Dan Price was the poster child for resisting corporate greed, making headlines in 2015 for setting a minimum $70,000…
Continue Reading Meta suspends anti-vaccine group led by RFK, Jr.
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Meta has permanently removed Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to Children’s Health Defense, the…
Continue Reading You should probably update your Apple devices right now
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple is directing users of most of its devices to update their software after the company discovered a vulnerability…
Continue Reading You should probably update your Apple devices right now
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple is directing users of most of its devices to update their software after the company discovered a vulnerability…
Continue Reading A monumental case looks to crack open the world of auto-warranty robocalls
By Brian Fung, CNN Business No sentence in the English language may be more infuriating than the following 12 words: “We have been trying to…
Continue Reading A monumental case looks to crack open the world of auto-warranty robocalls
By Brian Fung, CNN Business No sentence in the English language may be more infuriating than the following 12 words: “We have been trying to…
Continue Reading Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users and contractors
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections…
Continue Reading Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users and contractors
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections…
Continue Reading Revealing vast scope of FTC probe, Amazon accuses the government of harassing Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy
By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon is fighting the US government’s attempt to question its founder, Jeff Bezos, and its CEO, Andy Jassy, as part of a…
Continue Reading Spacewalk cut short by issue with Russian cosmonaut’s spacesuit: ‘Drop everything and start going back right away’
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A spacewalk was cut short just a few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk after a Russian…
Continue Reading Workers file for union vote at another Amazon facility
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The union that was the first to win a representation vote at an Amazon facility has filed for an election among about…
Continue Reading Spacewalk cut short by issue with Russian cosmonaut’s spacesuit: ‘Drop everything and start going back right away’
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A spacewalk was cut short just a few hours into what was intended to be a nearly seven-hour spacewalk after a Russian…
Continue Reading Airbnb rolls out ‘anti-party technology’ to help enforce its global ban
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Weeks after Airbnb said it would permanently ban parties at properties rented through its platform, the company is…
Continue Reading Report: $1.9 billion stolen in crypto hacks so far this year
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business A staggering $1.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in hacks of various services in the first seven months of…
Continue Reading American Airlines agrees to purchase 20 supersonic jets
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business American Airlines is placing a bet on a future in which supersonic jets might return to the skies, shuttling…
Continue Reading It’s like Airbnb but for renting your pool to strangers. Things don’t always go as planned
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Chris, a homeowner in Des Moines, was surprised when a woman he didn’t know recently pulled into his…
Continue Reading Amazon workers walk off job at air freight facility to call for better pay and working conditions
By Catherine Thorbecke and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business A coalition of Amazon employees walked off the job on Monday at an air freight facility in San…
Continue Reading WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Nearly three years after Adam Neumann stepped down as CEO of WeWork following a failed attempt to take the…
Continue Reading WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Nearly three years after Adam Neumann stepped down as CEO of WeWork following a failed attempt to take the…
Continue Reading WeWork’s former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1 billion
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Nearly three years after Adam Neumann stepped down as CEO of WeWork following a failed attempt to take the…
Continue Reading How to make sure your private messages stay private
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Last year, Facebook-parent Meta effectively pushed back its timetable for rolling out end-to-end encryption by default…
Continue Reading South Korea pardons Samsung’s Jay Y Lee in bid to revive the economy
By Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Business The de facto leader of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was pardoned by South Korea’s president on Friday for…
Continue Reading South Korea pardons Samsung’s Jay Y Lee in bid to revive the economy
By Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Business The de facto leader of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was pardoned by South Korea’s president on Friday for…
Continue Reading Nearly half of all teens say they use the internet ‘almost constantly,’ survey finds
By Jennifer Korn Nearly half of US teens say they use the internet “almost constantly,” according to a new survey released on Wednesday.…
Continue Reading ExpressJet Airlines, formerly under United, files for bankruptcy
By Jennifer Korn ExpressJet Airlines, which calls itself a “reboot” of the company formerly flying as Delta Connection and United…
Continue Reading United Airlines puts $10 million behind plan to shuttle customers by electric aircraft
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business United Airlines gave a $10 million deposit to a startup developing electric aircraft — all for the goal of…
Continue Reading Here’s why you still look terrible in virtual reality
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Mark Zuckerberg has bet his company’s future on an ambitious long-term vision of people carrying out greater…
Continue Reading Meta testing expanded encryption features amid renewed scrutiny of messaging data
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Meta on Thursday said it is testing expanded encryption features for Messenger and Instagram, days after the company…
Continue Reading FTC weighs sweeping new rules on ‘commercial surveillance’ and Big Data
By Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to write sweeping new regulations that could restrict how businesses collect…
Continue Reading Twitter activates election policy enforcement for US midterms
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter will now label and demote misinformation about the upcoming US elections, such as false claims about how to cast…
Continue Reading Twitter activates election policy enforcement for US midterms
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter will now label and demote misinformation about the upcoming US elections, such as false claims about how to cast…
Continue Reading It didn’t take long for Meta’s new chatbot to say something offensive
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Meta’s new chatbot can convincingly mimic how humans speak on the internet — for better and worse. In…
Continue Reading SpaceX denied nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business In a high-stakes decision, federal regulators announced Wednesday that SpaceX will not receive nearly $900 million in…
Continue Reading Nebraska teen and mother facing charges in abortion-related case that involved obtaining their Facebook messages
By Sara O’Brien and Clare Duffy, CNN Business A Nebraska mother and her 18-year-old daughter are facing multiple charges in a case that…
Continue Reading Nebraska teen and mother facing charges in abortion-related case that involved obtaining their Facebook messages
By Sara O’Brien and Clare Duffy, CNN Business A Nebraska mother and her 18-year-old daughter are facing multiple charges in a case that…
Continue Reading More than a dozen companies developing single standard to detect cyberattacks faster
By Brian Fung, CNN More than a dozen companies in the cybersecurity space are developing a single, open standard for sharing data about hacking…
Continue Reading Report: $1.9 billion stolen in crypto hacks so far this year
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business A staggering $1.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in hacks of various services in the first seven months of…
Continue Reading US gaming software developer Unity wants to supercharge its growth in China
By Laura He, CNN Business US gaming software developer Unity is partnering with some of the biggest names in China tech to establish a billion-dollar…
Continue Reading The next frontier in the tech battle between the US and China
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The technological arms race between the United States and China has cut across everything from smartphones and…
Continue Reading The next frontier in the tech battle between the US and China
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The technological arms race between the United States and China has cut across everything from smartphones and…
Continue Reading Elon Musk cited this tool in his bot dispute with Twitter. Its creator has thoughts
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Kaicheng Yang, a researcher at Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media, received quite the surprise last…
Continue Reading Snapchat rolls out option to let parents see who their teens are messaging
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Snapchat on Tuesday introduced its first parental control center, nearly 10 months after an executive from the…
Continue Reading WhatsApp is going to stop letting everyone see when you’re online
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business WhatsApp announced several new privacy updates on Tuesday, including the ability for users to check their messages…
Continue Reading Baidu gets permits for first fully driverless taxi service in China
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Tech giant Baidu announced Monday that it has obtained permits to operate fully autonomous taxis without any…
Continue Reading Tesla shares are about to get a lot cheaper with three-for-one stock split
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Tesla officially announced a three-for-one stock split, meaning the company’s stock price — which has…
Continue Reading Elon Musk’s legal team has publicly filed its official response to Twitter’s lawsuit
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk’s legal team on Friday made public its official response to Twitter’s lawsuit attempting to force…
Continue Reading First, they banned facial recognition. Now they’re not so sure
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Over the past few years, a number of cities and some states enacted rules banning or restricting local police use of…
Continue Reading Amazon to buy the company behind the Roomba in a $1.7 billion deal
By Jennifer Korn Amazon has agreed to buy iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuum, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.7 billion, including…
Continue Reading Twitter subpoenas Elon Musk’s associates as legal battle heats up
By Jennifer Korn and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter has subpoenaed a number of Elon Musk’s associates, according to court filings and public…
Continue Reading Twitter subpoenas Elon Musk’s associates as legal battle heats up
By Jennifer Korn and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter has subpoenaed a number of Elon Musk’s associates, according to court filings and public…
Continue Reading Debris from a SpaceX capsule found in Australia
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Chunks of space debris were reportedly found on farmland in the Australia mountains, and this week NASA and…
Continue Reading Another crypto bridge attack: Nomad loses $190 million in ‘chaotic’ hack
By Jennifer Korn Heists continue to plague the crypto world, with news of large sums stolen from digital currency firms seemingly every month. But…
Continue Reading Tinder’s first female CEO out after less than a year
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Tinder’s newest CEO is out after less than a year on the job, marking the second high-profile female…
Continue Reading Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan was the most-tracked of all time, Flightradar24 says
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan, which bolstered American support for the island nation but…
Continue Reading Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan was the most-tracked of all time, Flightradar24 says
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan, which bolstered American support for the island nation but…
Continue Reading Another crypto bridge attack: Nomad loses $190 million in ‘chaotic’ hack
By Jennifer Korn Heists continue to plague the crypto world, with news of large sums stolen from digital currency firms seemingly every month. But…
Continue Reading Robinhood to cut 23% of its workforce, revenue sinks 44%
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Just months after cutting 9% of its workforce, Robinhood on Tuesday announced plans to lay off another 23%. The…
Continue Reading Airbnb says demand is soaring even amid economic uncertainty
By Sara O’Brien, CNN Business Demand for Airbnb bookings continues to soar even as high gas prices and inflation weigh on consumers and the…
Continue Reading Private astronaut missions to the ISS will soon require an experienced astronaut chaperone
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Private astronaut missions to the International Space Station will have to be chaperoned by a former NASA…
Continue Reading Uber’s business is booming even with high gas prices and inflation
By Sara O’Brien, CNN Business Even higher gas prices and soaring inflation aren’t slowing down Uber’s rebound from the worst days…
Continue Reading Uber’s business is booming even with high gas prices and inflation
By Sara O’Brien, CNN Business Even higher gas prices and soaring inflation aren’t slowing down Uber’s rebound from the worst days…
Continue Reading TikTok’s ties to China are once again under fire in Washington. Here’s why
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Two years after then-President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States through an executive…
Continue Reading ‘A mountain that just keeps growing.’ What to know about the e-waste left behind by your gadgets
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business If you have one or more drawers filled with old gadgets and wires, you’re not alone. Decades of the tech…
Continue Reading Humanoid diving robot explores shipwrecks on the bottom of the ocean
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A robot created at Stanford University in California is diving down to shipwrecks and sunken planes in a way that humans…
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Humanoid diving robot explores shipwrecks on the bottom of the ocean
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A robot created at Stanford University in California is diving down to shipwrecks and sunken planes in a way that humans…
Continue Reading The online ad market is in decline and it’s dragging down tech giants with it
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Much of contemporary Silicon Valley was built on advertising dollars. That dependence made even the most powerful…
Continue Reading The trial between Twitter and Elon Musk now has a date
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over his move to terminate their $44 billion acquisition agreement…
Continue Reading Instagram walks back updates after criticism from Kardashian family
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash…
Continue Reading Instagram walks back updates after criticism from Kardashian family
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash…
Continue Reading Apple’s profit declines nearly 11%
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Even the world’s most valuable tech company isn’t immune to the more challenging global economic climate.…
Continue Reading Amazon beats expectations to avoid tech earnings slump
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon appears to still be going strong even as other Big Tech companies stumble amid pressure from inflation and an…
Continue Reading Amazon beats expectations to avoid tech earnings slump
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon appears to still be going strong even as other Big Tech companies stumble amid pressure from inflation and an…
Continue Reading Private browsing may not protect you as much as you think
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business For years, the most popular internet browsers have included options to search for and visit websites in…
Continue Reading Why Apple can’t quit China
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business For close to two decades, Apple and China have been inextricably linked. The world’s most populous country not…
Continue Reading Facebook parent posts first revenue decline as a public company
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook is in decline. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, reported revenue of $28.8 billion for the three months…
Continue Reading FTC files to block Facebook-parent Meta from buying a VR company
By Clare Duffy, Rachel Metz and Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday moved to block Facebook-parent Meta from acquiring virtual…
Continue Reading TikTok pledges more transparency for researchers amid renewed scrutiny
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday said it would share more data with certain researchers to study activity on the platform…
Continue Reading Twitter has set a date for its shareholders to vote on Elon Musk acquisition
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter has set a date for its shareholders to vote to approve its $44 billion acquisition deal by Elon Musk, despite…
Continue Reading Google posts major ad sales growth slowdown following pandemic boom
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Online advertising companies have been warning of a slowdown in ad demand amid high inflation and recession fears, and…
Continue Reading Microsoft says China and Russia hurt its earnings
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Microsoft’s business is taking a hit from events on the other side of the world. The tech giant on Tuesday…
Continue Reading Instagram has a Kardashian problem: Users revolt against app changes
By Clare Duffy and Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Tati Bruening was once the textbook example of an Instagram user. Since the pandemic, she has been…
Continue Reading Meta considers easing its Covid-19 misinformation policy
By Brian Fung, CNN Facebook-parent Meta is weighing whether to relax its policies against Covid-19 misinformation, proposing a shift from removing…
Continue Reading Shopify to cut 10% of staff after making ‘wrong’ bet about pandemic online shopping boom
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Shopify will lay off approximately 10% of its global staff after making the “wrong” bet on how long…
Continue Reading Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient, the company confirmed, saying he…
Continue Reading This delivery startup was valued at more than $11 billion. Then it slashed thousands of workers
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business In early March, after two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in New York City in a single week, a…
Continue Reading T-Mobile agrees to pay customers $350 million in settlement over massive data breach
By Brian Fung, CNN T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle multiple class-action suits stemming from a data breach disclosed last year…
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