Twitter executives quit amid company turmoil
By Brian Fung, CNN Just days after Twitter laid off thousands of employees, a number of top executives from teams working on privacy and security at…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Just days after Twitter laid off thousands of employees, a number of top executives from teams working on privacy and security at…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The near collapse this week of FTX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has sent shockwaves throughout the…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Video by John General, CNN Business In 2019, Air Company made a splash when it launched vodka derived from recaptured…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Video by John General, CNN Business In 2019, Air Company made a splash when it launched vodka derived from recaptured…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Twitter appears to be battling a wave of celebrity and corporate impersonators on its platform who have quickly gamed the…
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden said Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s relationship with other countries was “worthy of…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, Oliver Darcy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Elon Musk has publicly clashed with a growing number of Twitter employees about…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Twitter owner Elon Musk pleaded with advertisers to keep using his platform on Wednesday as he sketched out his plans for user…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen…
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Chris Stern, CNN Business The German government has blocked the sale of one of its semiconductor factories to a Chinese-owned tech…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A new verification mark intended to better identify prominent Twitter accounts has instead become the latest source of chaos at…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told company executives that major layoffs at the tech giant will begin on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business The European Union is taking a closer look at Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion purchase of video game giant…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN A federal judge has denied Elizabeth Holmes’ request for a new trial, according to court filings on…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business If you’ve heard the word “mastodon” a lot since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October,…
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, Irene Nasser, Arnaud Siad and CNN’s Beijing Bureau One of Apple’s largest suppliers is trying to strike a delicate…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple reportedly wants to put an end to “Hey.” The company is said to be training its voice…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Facebook-parent Meta is planning the first significant layoffs in its history as the company grapples with a…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business For years, Twitter has been a leader in countering misinformation and protecting elections. It was often ahead of its…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Airbnb on Monday said it plans to make the total cost of rental properties, including all fees, clearer to customers…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Twitter is delaying the rollout of account verifications for its paid Twitter Blue…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has given employees until Thursday evening to commit to…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Friday laid off employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter has seen a “massive drop in revenue,” as a growing number…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter has seen a “massive drop in revenue,” as a growing number…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Friday laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company, in a severe round…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business In 2009, after Twitter was sued by then-St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa for being impersonated on the…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Lyft on Thursday said it will lay off 13% of its staff, or nearly 700 employees, as it rethinks staffing amid…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon is pressing pause on corporate hiring and expects to keep the policy in place for months, in the latest…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN TikTok updated its privacy policies for European users on Tuesday, adding explicit disclosures that personal data from the app may…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN TikTok updated its privacy policies for European users on Tuesday, adding explicit disclosures that personal data from the app may…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The US government should ban TikTok rather than come to a national security agreement with the social media app that might allow…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business On October 27, the same day Elon Musk completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, the company’s chief customer…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk indicated on Wednesday that the Twitter account of former President Donald Trump will not be restored ahead of…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down from the company’s board earlier this year, but…
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business If a recession is looming, you wouldn’t know it from looking at Uber’s business. Uber on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn After facing criticism for his plan to charge Twitter users $19.99 a month to get or keep a verified account, Elon Musk has a…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours before news broke on Thursday that he had completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk wrote an…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours before news broke on Thursday that he had completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk wrote an…
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at…
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is calling on the federal government to investigate national security concerns raised by Saudi…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Jennifer Korn, CNN Twitter is considering offering verified accounts to users who are willing to pay $19.99 a month for…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke Thousands of Instagram users reported issues with accessing the platform on Monday morning. Approximately 7,000 users reported…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business In 2009, after Twitter was sued by then-St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa for being impersonated on the…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s board of directors was dissolved on Thursday following Elon Musk’s takeover of the company,…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN General Motors is pausing its advertising on Twitter now that the social media platform is owned by…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business In the hours after Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter late Thursday, many avid users began voicing their…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke Thousands of Instagram users reported issues with accessing the platform on Monday morning. Approximately 7,000 users reported…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business The three top Twitter executives whom Elon Musk fired Thursday will walk out the door with about $187 million of…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the company confirmed in a securities…
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 Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, a source familiar with the deal…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Apple beat Wall Street analysts’ sales and income expectations for the quarter ended in September, despite an…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon stock fell some 14% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company forecast its holiday quarter sales…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Apple beat Wall Street analysts’ sales and income expectations for the quarter ended in September, despite an…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Apple is about to offer its first hints about iPhone 14 sales after weeks of rumors that demand for its latest…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, Matt McFarland and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Ford is essentially pulling the plug on an effort to develop its first full…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk attempted to reassure Twitter’s advertisers about the future of the platform in an open letter Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh and Gawon Bae, CNN Business Samsung has appointed Jay Y. Lee, its longtime de facto leader, as executive chairman. The move was…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Meta on Wednesday posted the second quarterly revenue decline in its history since going public and warned that it is…
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk plans to visit Twitter’s San Francisco office this week ahead of the expected…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The iPhone will support USB-C charging in the European Union to comply with a new ruling that mandates…
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 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Microsoft posted a double-digit profit decline in the three-month period ending in September as the company…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business In recent months, bots have been top of mind for many who track the social media industry, thanks to Elon Musk’s…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Six months after the grassroots Amazon Labor Union scored a historic victory by becoming the first to unionize…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business WhatsApp suffered a serious outage on Tuesday, preventing users across the globe from sending or receiving messages on…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Amazon is rolling out a new option for customers to pay with Venmo. Starting Tuesday, select customers will see an…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business After Rebecca Kasten Higgins lost her husband in a car accident a few days before their 20th anniversary in…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business YouTube is rolling out what it calls a “small makeover” with a handful of new features and design…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business YouTube is rolling out what it calls a “small makeover” with a handful of new features and design…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission is seeking tough new restrictions against Drizly, the alcoholic beverage delivery platform, after…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission is seeking tough new restrictions against Drizly, the alcoholic beverage delivery platform, after…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Apple on Monday raised the price of its music and video streaming services, in the latest example of streaming…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A landmark law requiring Apple and other electronics makers to adopt USB-C as a universal charging standard in the European Union…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The clock is ticking for Elon Musk to complete his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire Tesla CEO has until 5 p.m. ET on…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Peers/ CNN Business It’s weird when wrestling superstar Randy Orton, Netflix’s romance “Bridgerton,” TikTok, a…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s industrial design chief who most recently oversaw the design of products including the iPhone,…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Shares of Twitter dropped as much as 8% in pre-market trading Friday as investors braced for some last-minute…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Snap’s bad year continues. Snap on Thursday reported revenue of $1.13 billion for the three months ending…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Snap’s bad year continues. Snap on Thursday reported revenue of $1.13 billion for the three months ending…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Google on Thursday, alleging the tech giant had violated the state’s…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business After months of layoffs, hiring freezes and other cost-cutting measures, big tech companies are set to provide the most…
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business After months of layoffs, hiring freezes and other cost-cutting measures, big tech companies are set to provide the most…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN GIFs — those short, animated images that were a staple of internet memes and culture in the 1990s and 2000s — may be going out…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Will Ripley, CNN Business Many Asian countries introduced tougher Covid-19 restrictions than in other continents, a reality that…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Uber is launching an in-house advertising division and rolling out its own form of targeted digital ads as it…
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, CNN Business The United States government is pulling out all the stops to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing,…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon workers in upstate New York have voted against forming a union, dealing another blow to a grassroots…
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Facebook-parent Meta plans to sell off Giphy, an online search tool for animated images, after the UK government said it would…
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