By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business If you’ve ever wanted to high-five someone in your group texts, you may soon be in luck. A new “Pushing Hand” gesture that looks like a high-five is on the shortlist of potential new emojis to be released later this year. Also included: a shaking face, a knob of ginger,
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon’s smart-doorbell company, Ring, has provided surveillance footage to law enforcement without a warrant or the consent of doorbell-owners 11 times this year alone, according to a letter Amazon (AMZN) sent to Congress earlier this month. The disclosure highlights the degree of Amazon’s control over data generated by the doorbells’
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon’s smart-doorbell company, Ring, has provided surveillance footage to law enforcement without a warrant or the consent of doorbell-owners 11 times this year alone, according to a letter Amazon (AMZN) sent to Congress earlier this month. The disclosure highlights the degree of Amazon’s control over data generated by the doorbells’ cameras
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business It’s not every day that a major corporate lawsuit features a poop emoji, but then again it’s not every day that one of the world’s most influential social media platforms sues the world’s richest man to make him buy it. Twitter on Tuesday filed a lengthy and colorful lawsuit against
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Twitter’s turbulent week continues. Twitter was briefly hit by a significant outage on Thursday morning, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues using the social media site, according to Down Detector. The reports of service interruptions appeared to begin spiking around 8:00 a.m. ET, according to Down Detector, which tracks internet
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business It only took Matt Laming, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, about a month to hit a million followers on Twitter. And all it required was sharing a steady stream of the most outlandish computer-generated images that he and a bunch of internet strangers could think up. In recent weeks,
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Rachel Metz, CNN Business It only took Matt Laming, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, about a month to hit a million followers on Twitter. And all it required was sharing a steady stream of the most outlandish computer-generated images that he and a bunch of internet strangers could think up.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday announced several updates intended to help users customize their viewing preferences and filter out content that may be problematic or too mature for young users, amid renewed scrutiny of the potential harms social media poses to teens. The short-form video app is tweaking its viewing experience so
Continue ReadingCNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday announced several updates intended to help users customize their viewing preferences and filter out content that may be problematic or too mature for young users, amid renewed scrutiny of the potential harms social media poses to teens. The short-form video app is tweaking its viewing experience
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Google plans to slow its pace of hiring for the remainder of the year in the latest sign of tech companies rethinking staffing amid a market downturn that has hit Silicon Valley particularly hard. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, announced the news on Tuesday in an
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Business A former Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection that the company considered imposing a stricter content moderation policy following a September 2020 comment by then-President Donald Trump telling the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” Trump’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Business A former Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection that the company considered imposing a stricter content moderation policy following a September 2020 comment by then-President Donald Trump telling the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter has sued billionaire Elon Musk in an effort to force him to follow through with his deal to buy the social media company. The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on Tuesday, comes after Musk said in a letter to Twitter’s top lawyer late Friday that he
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business An explosion on the launch pad during a test of a massive SpaceX rocket prototype was “actually not good” and the company is assessing the damage, company CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter. The rocket, an early version of the vehicle SpaceX is calling Starship, could be seen lighting its
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Tech companies and data brokers that misuse or misrepresent how they handle Americans’ personal data, including reproductive health information, may find themselves on the hook with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency warned this week. On Monday, the FTC renewed its vow to investigate or sue companies that use Americans’ digital
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk wants to cancel his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company is having none of it. On Friday, Musk moved to terminate the $44-billion acquisition agreement, alleging that Twitter breached the deal by failing to hand over data he says he needs to evaluate the number
Continue ReadingKSNV, VICTORIA PARTRIDGE, CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Business Hundreds of thousands of leaked Uber documents obtained by The Guardian and shared with a consortium of news outlets show how during its most aggressive period of growth, the ride-hailing company reportedly employed secret technology to thwart police investigations, sought favors from high-ranking government officials and
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Hundreds of thousands of leaked Uber documents obtained by The Guardian and shared with a consortium of news outlets show how during its most aggressive period of growth, the ride-hailing company reportedly employed secret technology to thwart police investigations, sought favors from high-ranking government officials and even perceived a silver
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Bad news for Twitter could turn out to be good news for former President Donald Trump. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that has agreed to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group, surged 15% in premarket trading Monday morning after Elon Musk said he
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk mocked Twitter’s efforts to force him to purchase the company — in a tweet, of course. Early Monday, Musk tweeted four images of him laughing next to captions that read: “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter. Then they wouldn’t disclose bot information. Now they want to force me
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