CNN – Social Media/Technology

By Brian Fung, CNN A landmark law requiring Apple and other electronics makers to adopt USB-C as a universal charging standard in the European Union has cleared its final procedural hurdle, after EU member states voted to approve the legislation on Monday. The new law, which is targeted at smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, portable speakers

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business The clock is ticking for Elon Musk to complete his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire Tesla CEO has until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to close his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a trial that was previously delayed to allow both parties to close the deal. The

By Alexandra Peers/ CNN Business It’s weird when wrestling superstar Randy Orton, Netflix’s romance “Bridgerton,” TikTok, a tattoo artist, Instagram, NFTs and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince all show up in the same law school textbook. A series of hot-button lawsuits have linked all those unlikely creators and platforms in litigation that goes as high

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s industrial design chief who most recently oversaw the design of products including the iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac computers is leaving the company. Evans Hankey was one of two people promoted to oversee the design team after the departure of Apple’s longtime product designer, Jony Ive, in June

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. But during a recent interview with her, I showed Hanson my attempts to recreate her style with just a few keystrokes. Using Stable Diffusion, a popular

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Snap’s bad year continues. Snap on Thursday reported revenue of $1.13 billion for the three months ending in September, a slight 6% increase from the year prior and less than Wall Street had expected, as the company confronts tightening advertiser budgets in an uncertain economy. In a letter to investors,

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business After months of layoffs, hiring freezes and other cost-cutting measures, big tech companies are set to provide the most detailed look yet at just how bad things have gotten for their businesses amid fears of a looming recession. Snapchat’s parent company, which tanked much of the tech sector in May

By Brian Fung, CNN GIFs — those short, animated images that were a staple of internet memes and culture in the 1990s and 2000s — may be going out of fashion now as social media users have largely moved on to emojis and video. But a long-running legal battle over who can control access to

By Eric Cheung and Will Ripley, CNN Business Many Asian countries introduced tougher Covid-19 restrictions than in other continents, a reality that has caused concerns about elevated levels of stress, anxiety and isolation. Now, a number of young entrepreneurs are leveraging technology to provide greater access to mental healthcare there. In July, Singapore-based Intellect raised

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Uber is launching an in-house advertising division and rolling out its own form of targeted digital ads as it seeks to develop new revenue sources. The ridehailing giant announced the launch of its “enterprise-wide” advertising unit on Wednesday, saying it will be helmed by Amazon advertising veteran Mark Grether. Uber

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon workers in upstate New York have voted against forming a union, dealing another blow to a grassroots labor group attempting to organize several of the tech giant’s US warehouses. In total, 406 workers at the Amazon facility near Albany voted against unionizing and 206 voted for it, according to

By Brian Fung, CNN Facebook-parent Meta plans to sell off Giphy, an online search tool for animated images, after the UK government said it would force the tech giant to unwind its acquisition of the service. It’s the first time regulators have successfully broken up a part of the technology giant since Meta’s economic dominance