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By Jon Sarlin, CNN Business By all appearances, it was your typical tech party. There was the branded swag, the free drinks and the mingling. But something was amiss at the Axie Infinity meet-up at Pattern Bar in Downtown LA. Earlier in the day, Axie Infinity, the play-to-earn crypto game in which players collect digital

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon CEO Andy Jassy received a pay package valued at $212.7 million in 2021, marking a substantial compensation increase for the executive during his first year running the tech giant, according to a company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. Nearly all of Jassy’s compensation comes in

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business A House committee will investigate how Amazon treats its workers, following the death of six employees in December when the distribution center they were working in was struck by a tornado. The House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Thursday demanding documents about company practices. It

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The right-to-repair movement has scored another win. Samsung is the latest tech company giving customers the ability to repair their own mobile devices amid pressure from consumers, regulators and even US President Joe Biden to ease restrictions on fixing products. The company announced on Thursday a new program that

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business The results of a do-over vote for a milestone union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, were too close to call on Thursday. A total of 875 workers at the Bessemer facility voted for joining a union and 993 voted against it, marking a much closer split

CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just launched its fourth successful space tourism mission, putting yet another feather in the cap of the company that hopes to make these supersonic joyrides a mainstay of pop culture. The six passengers, which include a Blue Origin engineer and five paying customers,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just launched its fourth successful space tourism mission, putting yet another feather in the cap of the company that hopes to make these supersonic joyrides a mainstay of pop culture. The six passengers, which include a Blue Origin engineer and five paying customers, boarded their New

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Amazon is moving its business into the exosphere, with plans to deploy more than 3,000 satellites to beam internet connectivity all over the planet. On Tuesday, the company announced deals with three rocket companies that will launch those satellites. The agreement includes two veteran rocket builders — United Launch

CNN By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After going 27 years without a US union, Amazon now faces a test from elections at not one but two of its warehouses. A union reelection at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama, facility concluded Friday after a nearly two-month voting period by mail. Beginning that same day, thousands of

By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Apple users could soon install apps outside the App Store. WhatsApp users could message or video call friends using Telegram, and vice versa. And the search results users see on Google could change, with potentially major repercussions for smaller online businesses. These are just some of the

CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Catherine Thorbecke and Jackie Wattles, CNN Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights. But the comedian abruptly

By Catherine Thorbecke and Jackie Wattles, CNN Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights. But the comedian abruptly dropped out of

CNN By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business On March 14, the same day Russia banned Instagram, Russian tech entrepreneur Alexander Zobov announced he would soon launch a local version of the popular photo and video sharing app called Rossgram. Zobov and his team “were already prepared for this outcome of events in advance and decided not

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business TikTok has been hit with another lawsuit from former content moderators who claim the job traumatized them. Ashley Velez and Reece Young, former contract content moderators for TikTok, allege that their work involved reviewing “unfiltered, disgusting and offensive content,” including “child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide, and murder,”

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Instacart’s valuation doubled twice to $39 billion in the first year of the public health crisis, fueled by a pandemic boon to its on-demand grocery delivery business. Now it’s falling back to earth. On Thursday, the decade-old, privately-held startup informed its 3,000 corporate employees that it is revising its