Elon Musk names NBCU ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO
CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Elon Musk on Friday named longtime media executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, months after he promised to…
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Twitter’s former CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish…
Continue Reading North America’s largest transportation network suspends use of Twitter for service alerts
By Rob Frehse, CNN North America’s largest transportation network suspended the use of Twitter for service alerts Thursday, saying the…
Continue Reading Amazon posts $3.2 billion profit as it goes through multiple rounds of layoffs
By Krystal Hur, CNN Amazon is starting the year back in the black. The e-commerce giant on Thursday reported a profit of $3.2 billion for the first…
Continue Reading Federal appeals court tosses state antitrust suit seeking to break up Meta
By Brian Fung, CNN A group of states that sued to break up Facebook-parent Meta in 2020 were years too late to file their challenge and failed to…
Continue Reading Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother…
Continue Reading How Elon Musk upended Twitter and his own reputation in 6 months as CEO
By Clare Duffy, CNN When Elon Musk first agreed to buy Twitter, he promised to make the company “better than ever,” with greater…
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New York MTA resumes transit alerts on Twitter
CNN By Brian Fung, CNN New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it would resume posting automated transit alerts to Twitter on…
Continue Reading Meta stock jumps after company reports first revenue growth in nearly a year
By Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday reported that it grew sales by 3% during the first three months of the year, reversing a trend…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Holmes delays start of prison sentence with last-minute appeal
By Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Elizabeth Holmes won’t be starting her 11-year prison sentence just yet. The disgraced Theranos…
Continue Reading Microsoft’s blockbuster deal to buy Activision is in jeopardy. Here’s what could happen next
By Brian Fung, CNN For years, Microsoft flew under the radar as policymakers around the world went after Amazon, Facebook and Google as some of the…
Continue Reading TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures
CNN By Jennifer Korn TikTok is testing a new option to let users create AI-generated avatars for their profile pictures, the company confirmed to CNN…
Continue Reading TikTok is testing a new option to create AI-generated avatars for profile pictures
By Jennifer Korn TikTok is testing a new option to let users create AI-generated avatars for their profile pictures, the company confirmed to CNN on…
Continue Reading Senators unveil bipartisan legislation to ban kids under 13 from joining social media platforms
By Brian Fung, CNN A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies to…
Continue Reading UK blocks Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard
By Hanna Ziady, CNN The UK antitrust regulator has blocked Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, threatening to thwart one of the tech…
Continue Reading Senate Republicans call on Biden administration to clamp down on cloud companies with ties to China
By Brian Fung, CNN A group of Republican senators on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to “use all available tools” to sanction…
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Despite TikTok ban threat, influencers are flocking to a new app from its parent company
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN In the days after TikTok’s CEO was grilled by Congress for the first time, many TikTok users began…
Continue Reading Man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee intends to plead not guilty next week, his attorney says
By Veronica Miracle, Cheri Mossburg and Phil Gast, CNN Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, intends to…
Continue Reading Online superstore Temu expands to Europe after conquering America
By Michelle Toh, CNN Temu, an online shopping platform that has quickly become the most popular app in the United States, has crossed the Atlantic.…
Continue Reading Appeals court largely sides with Apple on ‘Fortnite’ antitrust case
By Brian Fung, CNN A federal appeals court largely sided with Apple on Monday in a closely watched case about its app store policies, a decision that…
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