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Amazon accuses FTC of harassing Bezos and Jassy in Prime investigation
Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Saul Loeb | Pool | Reuters Amazon accused the Federal Trade Commission of harassing executive chairman Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy by […]
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Unity shares drop 7% after board rejects acquisition by AppLovin
Unity shares tumbled 7% on Monday, after the video game software company’s board rejected a bid to be acquired by AppLovin. Unity announced on Monday that AppLovin’s $20 billion bid was “not in the best interests of Unity shareholders.” AppLovin offered to buy Unity for $58.85 per share last week, which was a premium of […]
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Your iPhone can identify any song with just a tap. Here’s how to set it up
Taylor Swift Christopher Polk | Getty Images Your iPhone has a useful feature you might not know about. You can identify the song that’s playing on the radio at a bar, in your car or at a friend’s house, all without having to open an app. All you have to do is swipe down and […]
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Pinterest’s plan to better compete with TikTok, Shopify and Instagram
A banner for the online image board Pinterest Inc. hangs from the New York Stock Exchange on the morning that Pinterest makes its initial public offering on April 18, 2019. Spencer Platt | Getty Images In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. […]
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Facebook testing new encrypted backups for Messenger chat app
Onur Dogman | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meta, formerly Facebook, announced plans on Thursday to test a new secure storage feature for backups of users’ end-to-end encrypted chats on Messenger. The announcement comes after Facebook turned over Messenger chat histories to Nebraska police as part of an investigation into an alleged illegal abortion. A Meta […]
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TikTok parent ByteDance acquires private hospital chain
TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. Dado Ruvic | Reuters TikTok parent-company ByteDance’s healthcare unit in China, Xiaohe Health, has acquired a high-end healthcare organization called Amcare Healthcare. Bloomberg said the deal is worth $1.5 billion. Amcare Healthcare was founded in […]
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WhatsApp will soon let you slip out of group chats undetected
Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images WhatsApp is launching a new feature that will allow users to leave lengthy group chats without alerting others to their exit. Currently, pulling out of a WhatsApp group chat can be an awkward affair as everyone in the chat is informed when you leave. In larger groups, it […]
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Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a debate on bots
Centi-billionaire Elon Musk provoked Twitter and challenged the company’s CEO Parag Agrawal to a “public debate” about fake accounts and spam in the midst of a contentious legal battle over a $44 billion acquisition. Musk filed a bid with the Securities and Exchange to acquire Twitter back in April this year. After the companies agreed to […]
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Twitter-Musk drama escalates as both sides hurl claims of bad behavior in new filings
The Twitter-Elon Musk saga continued this week, as the two parties traded barbs in legal filings ahead of a five-day trial that’s scheduled to start Oct. 17. Newly released legal documents from lawyers representing Musk in a countersuit against Twitter claim the social media company engaged in a scheme to “mislead investors” by providing false […]
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Tech industry’s critical policy issues likely tabled as Congress heads for recess
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the start of a discussion with historians on how to “establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th” on the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2022. Al Drago | Pool | Reuters Congress is […]
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