CNN – Social Media/Technology

By Chris Isidore, Matt McFarland and Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Ford is essentially pulling the plug on an effort to develop its first full self-driving car, and it’s going to cost the automaker $2.7 billion to walk away. The company announced Wednesday it would no longer provide financial support for Argo AI, a self-driving car

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The iPhone will support USB-C charging in the European Union to comply with a new ruling that mandates electronic devices have a common charging standard, an Apple executive said Tuesday night. “Obviously we will have to comply,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said at the

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Google may be the giant in the digital advertising world, but even it is not immune to the impact that the economic downturn and recession fears are having on the online ad market. Google parent company Alphabet on Tuesday reported earnings results for the third quarter that fell short of

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Microsoft posted a double-digit profit decline in the three-month period ending in September as the company confronted a slowdown in the personal computing industry and a broader economic downturn. The tech giant on Tuesday reported net income of $17.6 billion for the quarter, a decrease of 14% from the year

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In recent months, bots have been top of mind for many who track the social media industry, thanks to Elon Musk’s attempt to use the prevalence of fake and spam accounts to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. But bots aren’t just a challenge for Twitter.

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Six months after the grassroots Amazon Labor Union scored a historic victory by becoming the first to unionize one of the tech giant’s US facilities, it now appears to be grappling with setbacks and delays. Workers at a California Amazon facility withdrew their petition late last week to unionize with

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business YouTube is rolling out what it calls a “small makeover” with a handful of new features and design changes intended to make watching videos on the platform a better experience. In a blog post published Monday, the company said it’s adding new tools inspired by feedback from its YouTube

By Brian Fung, CNN The Federal Trade Commission is seeking tough new restrictions against Drizly, the alcoholic beverage delivery platform, after what US regulators allege were repeated security failures that compromised the data of 2.5 million people. The proposed order against Drizly, if finalized, would force the company to beef up its cybersecurity and limit

By Brian Fung, CNN A landmark law requiring Apple and other electronics makers to adopt USB-C as a universal charging standard in the European Union has cleared its final procedural hurdle, after EU member states voted to approve the legislation on Monday. The new law, which is targeted at smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, portable speakers

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business The clock is ticking for Elon Musk to complete his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire Tesla CEO has until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to close his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a trial that was previously delayed to allow both parties to close the deal. The

By Alexandra Peers/ CNN Business It’s weird when wrestling superstar Randy Orton, Netflix’s romance “Bridgerton,” TikTok, a tattoo artist, Instagram, NFTs and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince all show up in the same law school textbook. A series of hot-button lawsuits have linked all those unlikely creators and platforms in litigation that goes as high

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s industrial design chief who most recently oversaw the design of products including the iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac computers is leaving the company. Evans Hankey was one of two people promoted to oversee the design team after the departure of Apple’s longtime product designer, Jony Ive, in June