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Apple agrees to pay $50 million to settle issues related to its ‘butterfly’ keyboards

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Apple has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit from customers who say they experienced failures related to the so-called “butterfly” keyboards included for years on certain MacBook laptops. The proposed settlement, which still requires a judge’s approval, was indicated in court documents filed Monday in

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Amazon sues administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups that allegedly brokered fake online reviews

By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon said Tuesday it has sued the administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups allegedly responsible for facilitating the purchase and sale of fake reviews on Amazon’s marketplace in seven countries. The group operators are accused of recruiting people to write fake or misleading product reviews in exchange for money or

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Justice Department opens civil probe into Amazon’s workplace safety practices

By Kara Scannell, CNN Business The US attorney’s office in Manhattan has opened a civil investigation into workplace safety at Amazon warehouses and possible “fraudulent” conduct to hide worker injuries from federal regulators, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said. Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Monday morning went to warehouses around

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SpaceX rockets to fly Russian cosmonauts with new NASA deal

By Jackie Wattles and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Business American and Russian astronauts will once share space aboard the same spacecraft after NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, reached a ride-sharing agreement Friday following months of back-and-forth discussions. Two seats on two separate launches of Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft have been reserved for NASA astronauts, with the

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Apple profit declines nearly 11%

CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Even the world’s most valuable tech company isn’t immune to the more challenging global economic climate. Apple on Thursday reported its profits declined by nearly 11% in the three months ending in June from the same period a year ago as the company works through an economic

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