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By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your…
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Activision Blizzard employees sign petition denouncing company’s ‘abhorrent’ response to lawsuit
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Pressure on Activision Blizzard is mounting as more than 2,000 current and former employees signed a petition slamming…
Continue Reading Tesla reports record quarterly earnings, blowing past Wall Street’s expectations
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla reported stronger-than-expected second quarter, with a record net income of $1.1 billion. It was far more than…
Continue Reading Philip Morris wants cigarettes banned in the UK by 2030
Philip Morris International says it will stop selling Marlboro cigarettes in Britain within a decade as it called on the UK government to ban the…
Continue Reading A surprising tech company could be next to join the Dow
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Chip giant Nvidia is the ninth-most valuable company in the S&P 500. With a market capitalization of almost…
Continue Reading Amazon posted a crypto job. Bitcoin surged 14%
By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Amazon listed a job opening for a digital currency and blockchain product lead, sending cryptocurrencies soaring…
Continue Reading Justice Department opposition kills major insurance merger
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business A proposed $30 billion insurance industry merger is off, one month after the Justice Department’s antitrust…
Continue Reading Goldman Sachs slashes US economic growth forecast over weaker spending on services
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Goldman Sachs slashed its forecast for US economic activity in the second half of the year, pointing to sluggish…
Continue Reading Opening ceremony ratings reflect NBC’s Olympic challenge
Will NBC be one of the winners or losers of the Summer Olympics? Claire Atkinson discusses the relatively weak ratings for the opening ceremony and…
Continue Reading Ratings plunged for the Olympics opening ceremony, but streaming was solid
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business The Tokyo Olympics officially kicked off this weekend, and on the face of it, the ratings for Friday’s opening…
Continue Reading Major medical groups call for mandatory Covid-19 vaccines for health care workers
NEW YORK, NY — As the number of Covid-19 cases surges in the United States, more than 50 health care groups — including the American…
Continue Reading Philip Morris wants cigarettes banned in the UK by 2030
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Philip Morris International says it will stop selling Marlboro cigarettes in Britain within a decade as it called on the…
Continue Reading China’s private education firms are the latest targets of Beijing’s crackdown
By CNN Business Staff Chinese officials are turning their crackdown on private business to yet another industry: education. A slew of big Chinese…
Continue Reading Bitcoin, dogecoin and ethereum are suddenly having another great week
By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Cryptocurrencies rallied Monday, just a week after they were hit by a major sell-off. As of 4:45 a.m. ET on Monday,…
Continue Reading Bitcoin and crypto’s ‘Elon Musk problem’
When Elon Musk tweets, the crypto world listens. CNN’s Jon Sarlin explores the contradictions of crypto’s decentralized networks alongside the very…
Continue Reading Carl Bernstein: Trump is our own American war criminal
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says we have to look at former President Donald Trump in a different context and calls Trump America’s “own war…
Continue Reading Carl Bernstein: Trump is a ‘war criminal’
By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Veteran journalist and author Carl Bernstein called former President Donald Trump a “war criminal” on…
Continue Reading Here are 8 things investors will be looking for in Tesla’s earnings report
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla is the most secretive automaker on the planet, so investors are always eager to pore through its quarterly…
Continue Reading The Delta variant is another massive headache for the Fed
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The Federal Reserve was already keeping a close eye on rising prices. Now it has to contend with the Delta coronavirus…
Continue Reading Global phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
By Hadas Gold, CNN Business Audacious Mossad spy operations around the world. The plucky “startup nation” home to reams of billion-dollar…
Continue Reading Global phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
Journalists from 17 news outlets are working together to expose evidence of spyware that specifically targets journalists, activists and politicians,…
Continue Reading Global phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest talks about the sophisticated technology used to spy on journalists, activists and two women linked to Jamal…
Continue Reading Frito-Lay Kansas worker strike ends after 20 days
By Sara O’Brien, CNN Business After a nearly three-week strike, hundreds of Frito-Lay employees in Topeka, Kansas have ratified a revised…
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National Tequila Day 2021 events & deals in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas — Grab your favorite shot glass as July 24 is National Tequila Day. The name comes from Mexico’s town of Tequila, Guadalajara.…
Continue Reading Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ice cream debuts and quickly sells out
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Nothing gets cheddar than this… The Kraft Heinz Company has partnered with Brooklyn-based Van Leeuwen Ice Cream to…
Continue Reading How Taiwan is trying to defend against a cyber ‘World War III’
By Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and Gladys Tsai, CNN Business As China steps up military pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island is preparing for…
Continue Reading Software company’s unveiling of decryption key comes too late for many victims of devastating ransomware attack
By Brian Fung, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its…
Continue Reading Amazon hires outside investigators after employee petition alleges discrimination and harassment
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Amazon has hired outside investigators to probe the internal culture of part of its cloud computing…
Continue Reading Why hundreds of Frito-Lay workers have been striking
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, say it used to be one of the best jobs in town — a place of shared…
Continue Reading GM again recalls its US electric vehicles over fire threat
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business GM is once again recalling nearly 70,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles because of a risk that the battery will…
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