Twitter relaunches option to pay for blue check marks
By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Monday relaunched an option for users who pay for its subscription service to receive a coveted “blue…
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Microsoft buys stake in London Stock Exchange owner in cloud data deal
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Microsoft is buying a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group as part of a deal that will see the market operator spend at…
Continue Reading As the world courts TSMC, Taiwan worries about losing its ‘silicon shield’
By Juliana Liu, CNN Semiconductor giant TSMC was feted this week by US President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook during a ceremony to unveil its $40…
Continue Reading Elon Musk says Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will flag ‘shadowbanning.’ It’s complicated
By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday said he plans to introduce an option to make it possible for users to determine…
Continue Reading Elon Musk says Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will flag ‘shadowbanning.’ It’s complicated
CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday said he plans to introduce an option to make it possible for users to…
Continue Reading Former employees suing Twitter speak out on Elon Musk’s ‘clumsy and inhumane’ layoffs
By Clare Duffy, CNN A group of former Twitter employees who are suing the company spoke out Thursday, alleging that new owner Elon Musk’s mass…
Continue Reading Apple abandons controversial plan to check iOS devices and iCloud photos for child abuse imagery
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is abandoning its plans to launch a controversial tool that would check iPhones, iPads and iCloud photos…
Continue Reading FTC sues to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
By Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard,…
Continue Reading Pentagon awards multibillion-dollar cloud contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
By Brian Fung, CNN The Defense Department has named Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle as the winners of a multibillion-dollar cloud computing…
Continue Reading The mass unbanning of suspended Twitter users is underway
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Thousands of previously banned Twitter users, including members of the far-right and users sharing blatant…
Continue Reading Biden administration urges Supreme Court to narrow Big Tech’s liability shield in pivotal Google case
By Brian Fung, CNN The Biden administration has told the US Supreme Court that social media platforms ought to be potentially liable for…
Continue Reading Apple plans to expand encryption of iCloud data
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple on Wednesday said it plans to expand end-to-end encryption of iCloud data to include backups, photos,…
Continue Reading Indiana Attorney General files lawsuits against TikTok
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on Wednesday announced he has filed two separate lawsuits against TikTok, which…
Continue Reading Microsoft says it has reached a 10-year deal to bring ‘Call of Duty’ to Nintendo
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Fans of the popular first-person shooter game “Call of Duty” may soon have more options for where…
Continue Reading Uber launching self-driving cars in Las Vegas
By Jennifer Korn, CNN Ridehailing giant Uber is now offering Las Vegas riders the option on its app to hail a self-driving taxis developed by another…
Continue Reading Wordle is the most-searched term on Google in 2022
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Admit it: You’ve probably either Googled the answer for Wordle, or at the very least searched to play it.…
Continue Reading Amazon’s checkout page stopped working for some users
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Thousands of customers looking to purchase an item on Amazon early Wednesday encountered an error message on the…
Continue Reading Meta avoids showdown over news content in US after journalism bargaining bill shelved
By Brian Fung, CNN A threat by Facebook owner Meta to remove news content from its platforms appears to have been averted — for now — after US…
Continue Reading Former Theranos COO sentenced to nearly 13 years
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former chief operating officer of failed blood testing startup…
Continue Reading Apple now lets developers charge as much as $10,000 for an app
By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business If you were worried about how much money you could blow on apps before, buckle up. Apple on Tuesday said it is…
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