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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple is relaxing some restrictions on how iPhone app developers can communicate with customers outside its App Store, as part of a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit. “Developers can use communications, such as email, to share information about payment methods outside of their iOS app” as long as

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Fortnite users have long had concerts to attend and movies to watch as they wander around the video game through their virtual avatars. Now, they have yet another option: reliving Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The new virtual experience, which launched Thursday, is called “March

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business The rocket that flew Jeff Bezos to space last month just took another brief, suborbital jaunt to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, this time without people on board, as the company continues to test the vehicle and prepare to offer rides to other ultra-wealthy thrill seekers. It marked the

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business The next time you make a restaurant reservation through OpenTable, you may also be asked to prove you’re vaccinated against Covid-19 with an app from Clear. The online restaurant reservation service said this week that when a user makes a reservation through its iPhone or Android apps they’ll soon see

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The global pandemic threw daily routines out the window; sleep schedules changed, so did diets, workout regimens, even hygiene. Stress levels were reported higher than ever. Fitbit CEO James Park said the last 18 months inspired the company to look closer at how its fitness trackers can better support

By Laura He, CNN Business One of China’s biggest tech firms has pledged to hand over its entire profit for the last quarter to rural development projects in the country as Beijing steps up the pressure for wealth redistribution. E-commerce firm Pinduoduo on Tuesday pledged to donate the $372 million it made in the three

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Dozens of major companies, state and federal agencies and other organizations that misconfigured a setting in their Microsoft software inadvertently exposed millions of people’s personal information to the public internet for months, according to security researchers. The data leak, which affected American Airlines, Maryland’s health department and New York’s Metropolitan

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Tim Cook took over as chief executive of Apple, it was a corporate transition unlike any other. He stepped out from the shadow of one of the best-known American CEOs and took the reins of one of the world’s biggest tech companies facing some uncertainty about how much more

By Charles Riley, CNN Business Airbnb has pledged to provide free housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees. CEO Brian Chesky said Tuesday that the program would begin immediately, and that Airbnb would pay for the stays. “The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the US and elsewhere is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of