Russia says it’s blocking access to Facebook
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Russia is blocking Facebook in the country, according to its communications regulator. “In March 2022, a decision…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Russia is blocking Facebook in the country, according to its communications regulator. “In March 2022, a decision…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Google has suspended all advertising in Russia, the company confirmed to CNN Friday. “In light of the extraordinary…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business When Russia moved to “partially restrict” Facebook access in the country last week, drawing…
Continue ReadingBy Mark Thompson, CNN Business Russia’s biggest search engine could collapse as financial fallout from the invasion of Ukraine spreads. Yandex,…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will no longer deliver Russian-made rocket engines to the United States,…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent a truckload of Starlink antennas — which can be used to connect to the company’s…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent a truckload of Starlink antennas — which can be used to connect to the company’s…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The international non-profit that coordinates management of the internet told Ukraine it will not intervene in the…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn A Russian ultimatum was met with swift dismissal as the war in Ukraine extends to outer space. OneWeb, a London-based satellite…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn The business fallout from the war in Ukraine is about to extend to outer space. OneWeb, a London-based satellite startup striving…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business A nationwide group of state attorneys general announced an investigation into TikTok’s impact on young Americans…
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Google is giving its employees one more month of being fully remote before requiring them back in the office at least…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is gearing up for its first big product event of the year. The company announced Wednesday it will host…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business First, Amazon killed traditional bookstores. Then it opened its own. Now, Amazon is doing away with its…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Jennifer Korn, CNN SpaceX has a new deal to launch internet-beaming satellites for its chief competitor in the satellite…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Over the past week, Ukraine’s government has pressured major tech platforms to rethink how they operate with…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke Fitbit is recalling 1.7 million smartwatches due to a potential burn hazard, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said…
Continue ReadingBy Mark Thompson, CNN Business Russia’s biggest search engine could collapse as financial fallout from the invasion of Ukraine spreads. Yandex,…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Apple has stopped selling all of its products in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine, the company announced Tuesday.…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business In recent years, Ukraine has increasingly positioned itself as a tech hub, with a number of global…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business As hacking by nation-states has grown more pervasive in recent years, Microsoft has long called for the creation of a new…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business As hacking by nation-states has grown more pervasive in recent years, Microsoft has long called for the creation of a new…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Steve Wozniak has a new — and potentially lucrative — passion: Space junk. But the money, according to…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all taking tougher stances on content from Russian state media amid intensifying…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Airbnb is offering free short-term housing for up to 100,000 Ukrainians who have been displaced by the war with…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Airbnb is offering free short-term housing for up to 100,000 Ukrainians who have been displaced by the war with…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Amazon will no longer require its US warehouse employees to wear face masks in states where local laws do…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Facebook’s parent Meta said Monday it has caught dozens of fake, pro-Russian accounts, groups and pages across its platforms…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech…
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN YouTube said Saturday that it will temporarily halt the ability of a number of Russian channels, including state-sponsored RT,…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Ukraine’s official Twitter account wants @Russia to be removed from the platform. YouTube is facing…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already killed hundreds, sent thousands of refugees…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all taking tougher stances on content from Russian state media amid intensifying…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The Federal Communications Commission is on the hunt for companies it oversees that may have ownership ties to Russia, in…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The Federal Communications Commission is on the hunt for companies it oversees that may have ownership ties to Russia, in…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The Russian government moved to “partially restrict” Facebook access in the country on Friday after…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The Russian government moved to “partially restrict” Facebook access in the country on Friday after…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business In the early days of the pandemic, as households around the country went into lockdown, shoppers for…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Google is relaxing Covid-19 policies at its headquarters and other offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and bringing back some of…
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The standoff between the United States and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine has so far mainly played out on…
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The standoff between the United States and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine has so far mainly played out on…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business The Internal Revenue Service will continue using controversial facial recognition software for the rest of the current…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN The fire on board the large car-carrying cargo ship Felicity Ace could soon be extinguished because there…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Slack went down for many users Tuesday morning, throwing off companies that rely on the popular workplace communication…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Twenty years after 3G was first introduced in the United States, paving the way for a new generation of mobile…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Slack went down for many users Tuesday morning, throwing off companies that rely on the popular workplace communication…
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Snapchat on Friday announced a buddy system-like feature that allows its users to share their real-time location with friends…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN The fire on board the large car-carrying cargo ship Felicity Ace could soon be extinguished because there…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business It has been about two decades since Microsoft and the US government went head-to-head in one of the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn An abandoned cargo ship packed with cars is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, after a rapidly-spreading fire on board forced the crew to…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is about to hold its first big product event of 2022 and the focus will be on performance. That likely…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business I stood outside a busy New York City subway stop recently, dressed like a celebrity trying not to be…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Eviation, the company behind what is supposed to be the world’s first all-electric passenger airplane, has…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Google plans to develop new privacy measures that remove the ability to track users across apps on Android devices,…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Confused how you ended up with a low rating on Uber? A new feature will offer a bit more insight. Uber on Wednesday announced an…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Two US senators are pushing to curb the potentially harmful impacts of social media on young people with a new bill targeting tech…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The looming shutdown of 3G networks won’t just impact older phones. With AT&T’s 3G network…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Virgin Galactic is reopening sales of its $450,000 tickets that get customers a 90-minute joyride aboard an…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Mark Zuckerberg stares at a cartoon version of himself in a virtual world and tries to pick an outfit for his avatar to…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business A nationwide group of state attorneys general announced an investigation into TikTok’s impact on young Americans…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Texas is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta (FB), over allegations the social media giant illegally harvested the facial…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jared Isaacman — the billionaire CEO of payments processing company Shift 4 — is buying three more flights with…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jared Isaacman — the billionaire CEO of payments processing company Shift 4 — is buying three more flights with…
Continue ReadingReuters Network gear maker Cisco Systems has made a takeover offer worth more than $20 billion for software maker Splunk, The Wall Street Journal…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Amazon will no longer require its fully vaccinated warehouse employees to wear face masks at work in states that have…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A controversial bill targeting how tech platforms and websites handle child sexual abuse material cleared a key hurdle on Thursday…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spoke for over an hour Thursday night in a hotly anticipated discussion about Starship, which…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple said Thursday it plans to add more safeguards to AirTags to cut down on unwanted tracking following…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is expected on Thursday to give the most thorough update in two years about SpaceX’s plans…
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Google Analytics, the world’s most widely used web analytics service developed by Alphabet’s Google (GOOG), risks giving U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy Sara O’Brien, CNN Business Uber’s business is showing signs that it’s moving past the pandemic slowdown. The company reported…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Up to 40 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing:…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Microsoft is trying to persuade regulators to approve its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard with a series of new…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone line appears to be discontinued. But for those who miss it, the Note…
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing will sue Tesla, alleging systematic racial discrimination…
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Gaming is big business. And snack makers want in. Beverage brands have long been advertising directly to…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone line appears to be discontinued. But for those who miss it, the Note…
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Gaming is big business. And snack makers want in. Beverage brands have long been advertising directly to…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Peter Thiel, the controversial billionaire tech founder and investor, has used his fortune to encourage…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone line appears to be discontinued. But for those who miss it, the Note…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service halted a plan that would have forced taxpayers to verify their identities with…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business TikTok announced Tuesday that it will strengthen efforts to regulate dangerous content, including harmful hoaxes and…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Apple on Tuesday said it plans to introduce a contactless payment option later this year that will let businesses use…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial…
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, started offering robotaxi rides this week in San Francisco.…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four years ago this week, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, made its…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four years ago this week, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, made its…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s longest-serving and most controversial board members, plans to step down from the…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business The Internal Revenue Service is halting a plan that would have required taxpayers to verify their identities with facial…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Amazon is dramatically increasing salary caps for its US-based technology and corporate workforce, in a nod to how the…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Up to 40 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing:…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles Video by Gabe Ramirez Tim Ellis, an unassuming 31-year-old with glasses who shuffles around his sprawling rocket factory in…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a new feature aimed at cutting down on harassment and assault in virtual…
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