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By Jill Disis and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Business Media companies in Australia are liable for the comments that Facebook users post under their articles, the country’s highest court ruled this week. The decision could have widespread consequences for how Australian publishers interact with their readers on social media. The High Court of Australia on Wednesday

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business More than two decades ago, India began its transformation into a global IT powerhouse, ushering in an era of wealth and job creation never before seen in the country. Now, Asia’s third largest economy is ready for the next big frontier in tech: Coming up with a new generation of

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Chinese regulators have summoned companies to demand they play down profits and further clamp down on how minors can play video games, just days after children in the country were banned from access during the week. State-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday that authorities had called in firms, including industry

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes and the US government faced off in a San Jose federal courtroom in the long-awaited criminal trial of the founder and former CEO of Theranos. In opening arguments Wednesday, the government sought to convince jurors that the Stanford University dropout intended to mislead investors, patients, and doctors

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Business Police in China have released a former Alibaba employee accused of sexually assaulting a co-worker after prosecutors found that his act of “forcible indecency” did not constitute a crime. The decision has reignited public debate about a case that rocked the country’s tech industry and led to a reckoning within

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business PayPal is buying Japanese startup Paidy, marking the latest major tie-up in the fast-growing space of buy now, pay later companies. The US giant announced the mostly cash deal Tuesday night, which is worth 300 billion Japanese yen (about $2.7 billion). In a statement, PayPal said that the acquisition was

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Ford on Tuesday announced that it has hired Doug Field away from Apple as it looks to bolster its self-driving and electric vehicle ambitions. Field will become Ford’s chief advanced technology and embedded systems officer, and will oversee efforts including vehicle controls, enterprise connectivity and driver assistance technology, the automaker

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of failed biotech startup Theranos, went from being hailed as the next Steve Jobs to facing up to 20 years in prison over federal fraud charges. How did Holmes get here? A Stanford University dropout, Holmes — inspired by her own fear

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple will likely reveal its latest lineup of iPhones next week. The company sent out press invitations on Tuesday for a virtual event — with the tagline “California Streaming” — that will take place on Tuesday, September 14, at its Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California. Apple is expected

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Hours after the Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law prohibiting most abortions on Wednesday night, a small group of leaders at rideshare company Lyft convened to discuss how the company would respond. “Our President and CEO, John Zimmer and Logan Green, reached out and said, ‘What can we

By Charles Riley, CNN Business K-pop fans are the latest casualty of China’s crackdown on celebrity culture. Weibo, China’s heavily censored version of Twitter, announced Sunday it has suspended 21 fan accounts dedicated to various K-pop artists due to “irrational star-chasing behavior.” The accounts, which have been suspended for 30 days, are dedicated to members

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A 100-foot-tall rocket burst into flames mid-air after launching from California Thursday evening, dashing the hopes of a Texas-based startup to put a rocket into Earth’s orbit on its first-ever launch attempt. The rocket, which launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base north of Los Angeles on Thursday, appeared to have

By Clare Duffy and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple made headlines — and not the good kind — last month when it announced a test of a new tool aimed at combating child exploitation. Critics quickly decried the feature’s potential privacy implications, and now Apple is taking a long pit stop before moving forward

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business A group of researchers has developed a new material they say is as soft as cotton but as strong as Kevlar and as conductive as many metals. It can be worn and washed like normal clothing and could eventually turn athletic apparel into smart “wearables.” The so-called “carbon nanotube threads”