Jeff Bezos reveals what crew was talking about before liftoff
CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark about their trip into space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft, and what…
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Jeff Bezos reveals what the crew talked about before liftoff
By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Amazon founder Jeff Bezos caught up with CNN’s Anderson Cooper after returning to Earth Tuesday, reflecting…
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‘Best day ever’: Watch as Bezos successfully completes passenger space flight
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE RACE TO SPACE VAN HORN, Texas — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first…
Continue Reading This company is testing self-driving cars in New York City for the first time
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Mobileye, an Israeli self-driving technology company owned by Intel, has become the first company to test fully…
Continue Reading See the first self-driving car to take a spin on NYC streets
Intel-owned startup Mobileye has completed the first ever tests of self-driving cars on the streets of New York City without a police…
Continue Reading Netflix falls short on subscriber growth and confirms plans to get into gaming
By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix posted sluggish subscriber growth when it reported earnings Tuesday, and forecast bigger gains ahead. But…
Continue Reading See the moment Blue Origin spacecraft touches down
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft touches down safely after a successful flight to…
Continue Reading Meet Wally Funk, the 82-year-old pilot who just went to space with Jeff Bezos
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASA’s Mercury program but was denied the…
Continue Reading Facebook doubles profit but braces for hit from Apple privacy changes
President Biden backed away from his claim that Facebook is “killing people” by allowing Covid-19 misinformation, clarifying that his previous…
Continue Reading Instagram users can now control how much sensitive content they see
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Instagram is making it easier for users to control how much sensitive content they see when browsing the app’s…
Continue Reading Bezos donates $100 million each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s wealthiest man, said Tuesday after flying to the edge of space that he…
Continue Reading Robinhood targets July 29 debut as a public company
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Robinhood is planning to make its big debut as a public company next week. The trading app is expected to start trading on…
Continue Reading Taco Bell is facing a food shortage
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Taco Bell is warning that some of customers’ favorite items might not be available. The chain apologized on…
Continue Reading How to profit from greener bitcoin miners
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Securities and Exchange Commission still hasn’t approved a single bitcoin exchange-traded fund even…
Continue Reading You don’t have to be rich to cash in on the space race
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Average folks may not be able to saunter into space like Jeff Bezos just yet. But the frenzy around exploring the…
Continue Reading See the moment Blue Origin spacecraft lifts off
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched into space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft he…
Continue Reading During the pandemic, another devastating health crisis was growing
Opioid overdose deaths rose 30% last year, making 2020 the year with the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in the US, according to the…
Continue Reading Three opioid distributors settle New York lawsuit for $1.1 billion
By Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN Business Three opioid distributors have settled a lawsuit with New York state to the tune of over $1 billion, according…
Continue Reading Dow surges 550 points after biggest drop of the year
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Stocks rallied Tuesday, rebounding from a miserable trading session at the start of the week when the Dow logged its…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos just went to space and back
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched into space aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft he…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos just went to space and back
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, went to space and back Tuesday morning on an 11-minute, supersonic joy…
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4 U.S. drug companies on verge of $26B opiod cases settlement
NEW YORK, NY — The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion…
Continue Reading This crucial industry is still a major threat to the recovery
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The travel and tourism sector is still struggling to get back on its feet more than a year into the coronavirus…
Continue Reading Ben & Jerry’s will stop selling ice cream in Palestinian territories
Ben & Jerry’s will no longer sell ice cream in occupied Palestinian territories, saying it’s inconsistent with the values of the socially conscious…
Continue Reading Bitcoin falls below $30,000 as Delta variant fears spread globally
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Bitcoin fell below $30,000 again as investors worldwide fret about the Delta variant and what it means for the next…
Continue Reading Joe Biden wants to overhaul global tax rules. Ireland stands in the way
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business One of President Joe Biden’s priorities is a historic overhaul of global tax rules. The world’s most…
Continue Reading Jeff Bezos was criticized for his space flight. See what the billionaire had to say
CNN’s Rachel Crane speaks with Jeff Bezos and his crew about flights to space being “joyrides for the wealthy” a day before they take flight to the…
Continue Reading As Jeff Bezos prepares to lift off, he concedes that billionaires-in-space critics are ‘largely right’
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free…
Continue Reading It has taken a pandemic to crack the glass ceiling in India
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The coronavirus pandemic appears to have given an unexpected boost to a small — but influential — cohort of…
Continue Reading Ben & Jerry’s CEO: White America must ‘get over it’ and fix systemic racism
Ben & Jerry’s CEO Matthew McCarthy says corporate America has a responsibility to fix racist…
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