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By Claudia Rebaza, Clare Duffy and Al Goodman, CNN The widow of controversial antivirus software magnate John McAfee said her husband was not suicidal, and blamed United States authorities for “this tragedy” after he was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday. The 75-year-old McAfee, who had multiple run-ins with

By Clare Duffy and Al Goodman, CNN Business John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. McAfee was found dead in his cell

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The tussle between Twitter and the Indian government just escalated to the next level. India’s technology minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said on Friday that he was denied access to his Twitter account for almost an hour. “Friends! Something highly peculiar happened today,” the minister said in one of the seven

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The tussle between Twitter and the Indian government just escalated to the next level. India’s technology minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said on Friday that he was denied access to his Twitter account for almost an hour. “Friends! Something highly peculiar happened today,” the minister said in one of the seven

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business British regulators are investigating whether Amazon and Google have broken consumer protection law by not doing enough to protect shoppers from fake product reviews. The probe is the latest in a string of investigations piling up against tech giants around the world, as officials and policymakers scrutinize claims of anti-competitive

By Brian Fung, CNN Business A powerful House panel on Thursday approved a sweeping set of proposals aimed at weakening Big Tech. It passed a series of measures imposing new obligations on top digital platforms, prohibiting them from abusing any gatekeeper power, and in some cases opening the door to new fines and breakups. In

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Amazon defeated a high-profile union drive at a warehouse in Alabama earlier this year. But now the e-commerce giant could face a much larger campaign to unionize its US warehouse workers, launched by one of the biggest unions in the nation. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters voted Thursday in

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Windows is getting a glow up. Microsoft on Thursday officially announced its latest PC operating system update, called Windows 11. It includes visual improvements, Microsoft Teams integration for people working from home and a new Microsoft store, among other changes — although a glitchy livestream of the event made it

John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. CNN’s Al Goodman reports.

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Last year, Google and Facebook collectively bet more than $10 billion on Asia’s richest man and his plan to bring hundreds of millions of Indians online. The investments quickly established Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire head of sprawling Indian conglomerate Reliance, as a gatekeeper for Silicon Valley in the country —

By Clare Duffy and Alan Goodman, CNN Business John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. McAfee was found dead in his cell

By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Over the last two decades, a handful of large tech companies have pushed into nearly every corner of our lives — from communications and retail to financial services, healthcare and automobiles. The companies’ biggest critics accuse them of scooping up rivals, launching copycat products and, in some

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Microsoft has officially entered the most elite of clubs: corporations with a market value exceeding $2 trillion. The tech giant is only the second publicly traded American company, behind Apple, to reach such a valuation. Oil company Saudi Aramco, which went public in 2019, has also previously passed that mark,

By Mark Thompson, CNN Business The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into Google’s vast advertising business, claiming that the company may have disadvantaged rival services, making it harder for brands to reach consumers and for publishers to fund their content. The formal investigation, which follows a preliminary probe that began in 2019, will

Tyler Hamilton has worked at the Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota for four years. He shares the good and the bad about the fast-paced job.