Uber partners with Meta to launch ride-booking via WhatsApp in India
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Uber wants to make booking a ride in India as easy as sending a WhatsApp message. The San Francisco-based company has…
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Ransomware attack on Planned Parenthood exposes 400,000 patients’ personal data
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood suffered a ransomware attack in October that compromised the personal information…
Continue Reading Square is changing its name to ‘Block’
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Days after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO of Twitter, his other company is changing its name. Square, the digital…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Holmes testifies she reached out to Rupert Murdoch to try to kill a damning Wall Street Journal story
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business When Elizabeth Holmes got wind that then-Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou was working on a…
Continue Reading Facebook says Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to stoke border crisis
By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, says it has evidence the Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to…
Continue Reading Google bans political ads ahead of elections in the Philippines
By Walé Azeez, CNN Business Google will ban political advertising on its platforms in the Philippines as the country prepares for elections in May.…
Continue Reading Facebook lifts Kyle Rittenhouse restrictions, including searches and praise
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Facebook will no longer limit users from searching for or praising Kyle Rittenhouse, following a court’s acquittal…
Continue Reading Twitter says it will remove images of people posted without consent
By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Business Twitter has updated its privacy policy so that it can remove images of people that have been posted without their…
Continue Reading Meta exec behind Facebook’s cryptocurrency project to step down
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business David Marcus, the executive in charge of the troubled cryptocurrency project at Meta Platforms — the company…
Continue Reading Meet the new CEO of Twitter
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Parag Agrawal isn’t a household name, but he could soon become one as he takes the lead at one of the world’s…
Continue Reading Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK antitrust authorities
By Mark Thompson, CNN Business Regulators have long threatened to break up Facebook (now called Meta) because of its huge market power. Now one group…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Holmes testifies she was abused by former Theranos COO
By Sara Ashley O’Brien and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes, flushed and holding back tears, testified Monday that she left…
Continue Reading Jack Dorsey is stepping down as CEO of Twitter
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Jack Dorsey, the cofounder and public face of Twitter, will step down from his role as CEO, effective immediately, the…
Continue Reading Meet the robot that can write poetry and create artworks
By Hannah Ryan, CNN When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the…
Continue Reading These products aim to help kids rebuild social skills amid concerns about pandemic impact
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Meditation toys to help kids manage their feelings. A Lego kit for coding, with a focus on problem-solving…
Continue Reading Amazon faces Black Friday strikes by workers across Europe
By Walé Azeez, CNN Business Amazon is facing strikes by warehouse workers and delivery drivers across Europe as its busiest weekend of the year…
Continue Reading US adds a dozen Chinese companies to its trade blacklist
By Jill Disis and Kylie Atwood, CNN Business The Biden administration is piling more pressure on Chinese companies it claims could undermine US…
Continue Reading What we’ve learned so far from Elizabeth Holmes’ testimony
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business For 11 weeks, the only words from Elizabeth Holmes in her criminal trial came from old TV interviews, an…
Continue Reading Instagram head to testify before Senate subcommittee about the platform’s impact on kids
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is set to testify in a Senate subcommittee hearing in early December about the…
Continue Reading Samsung will create 2,000 jobs in Texas with $17 billion chip factory
By Yoonjung Seo, CNN Business Samsung is planning to build a $17 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas as part of efforts to tackle a…
Continue Reading Apple sues NSO Group over spyware
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Apple on Tuesday sued NSO Group and its parent company, accusing the Israeli firm of violating a federal anti-hacking…
Continue Reading Xiaomi’s stumble allows Apple to reclaim No.2 spot in smartphones
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Xiaomi stumbled in the third quarter as it grappled with fallout from the global chip shortage and fiercer competition.…
Continue Reading Little Tikes made a Peloton-like bike for kids, but child development experts cry foul
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The indoor cycling craze has come for America’s kids, and child development experts aren’t happy. Little…
Continue Reading Astra stock soars after first successful rocket launch
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Astra, a startup building small rockets that launch out of rural Alaska, notched its first successful test flight on…
Continue Reading This cult teen brand is quitting social media amid growing safety concerns
By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Trendy soaps brand Lush Cosmetics is quitting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat on Friday in a radical move…
Continue Reading He took charge of Amazon’s biggest moneymaker. Now he faces a new set of challenges
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Jeff Bezos decided to give up his role as Amazon’s chief executive earlier this year, it prompted the company…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Holmes to resume testimony in her own criminal trial
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business For months, Elizabeth Holmes sat silently, masked, in a San Jose federal courtroom as the government…
Continue Reading China fines Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu for more antitrust violations
By Jill Disis, CNN Business China is bringing the regulatory hammer down yet again on some of the country’s largest tech firms. Alibaba,…
Continue Reading El Salvador plans first ‘Bitcoin City’, backed by bitcoin bonds
Reuters El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, funded initially by bitcoin-backed bonds, President Nayib…
Continue Reading Apple affirms employees’ right to speak about working conditions, in a win for #AppleToo movement
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Apple posted a statement to its employees Friday evening reminding them of their rights to speak up about their pay and…
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