By Sara Ashley O’Brien and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Months after Crystal learned that her boyfriend had been covertly dating at least two other people, she began warning women on TikTok to be cautious of dating him. “I wanted everyone … to see this man’s face. Beware of him, he is a manipulator, he is
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business An “unsubscribe” option that’s a little too hard to find. A tiny box you click, thinking it simply takes you to the next page, but it also grants access to your data. And any number of unexpected charges that appear during checkout that weren’t made clearer earlier in the process.
Continue ReadingBy 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
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook is testing an option for users to create multiple profiles from a single account, amid a bid by the platform to reignite user growth. The feature is aimed at helping users “tailor their experience based on interests and relationships,” Facebook spokesperson Leonard Lam told CNN Business in a statement.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The Securities and Exchange Commission has continued to examine Elon Musk’s investment in and $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. A letter sent by the SEC to Musk on June 2 includes questions about the billionaire’s use of Twitter to discuss the deal, including his tweets about the deal being
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon has offered to change its business practices in Europe to resolve two ongoing antitrust investigations targeting the company in the EU, according to European Commission officials. Under the proposed changes affecting the EU market, Amazon has offered not to use data gathered from third-party sellers for its
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon has offered to change its business practices in Europe to resolve two ongoing antitrust investigations targeting the company in the EU, according to European Commission officials. Under the proposed changes affecting the EU market, Amazon has offered not to use data gathered from third-party sellers for its own retail decisions,
Continue ReadingCNN, 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
Continue ReadingBy 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 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 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 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.”
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