By Jennifer Korn and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Update: This story was originally published on May 6. It has been updated to reflect the Supreme Court’s final decision. The Supreme Court’s Friday ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade is almost certain to spark a wave of new state legislation taking aim at abortion rights, and
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business Two people died this week when a Nio electric car crashed to the ground from the third floor of a parking lot in Shanghai. One member of Nio’s staff and an employee from a partner company were killed in the accident, the Chinese electric carmaker said in a statement Thursday.
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business Two people died this week when a Nio electric car crashed to the ground from the third floor of a parking lot in Shanghai. One member of Nio’s staff and an employee from a partner company were killed in the accident, the Chinese electric carmaker said in a statement Thursday.
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The latest iteration of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant could sound eerily familiar. The company announced on Wednesday during its annual re:MARS conference, which focuses on artificial intelligence innovation, that it’s working on an update to its Alexa system that would allow the technology to mimic any voice, even a
Continue Reading By Reuters An Italian company’s hacking tools were used to spy on Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet’s Google said in a report on Thursday. Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of the targeted devices, the report
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX, Dish Network and other 5G providers are locked in a heated battle over radio frequencies, which SpaceX says it needs for its orbital internet service, Starlink, and which Dish says it needs for its own customers. SpaceX is claiming that, if federal regulators allow 5G wireless networks to use
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos — the billionaire founder of Amazon and rocket company Blue Origin — made a grand public announcement a year ago that he purchased a ship to capture Blue Origin rockets after they return from space, and he named the vessel after his mother. But now the company says
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Whitney Wild, CNN Business Calls for violence against members of the January 6 committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found. Users on these platforms are openly calling for the execution of committee members,
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Whitney Wild, CNN Business Calls for violence against members of the January 6 committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found. Users on these platforms are openly calling for the execution of committee members,
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Whitney Wild, CNN Business Calls for violence against members of the January 6 committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found. Users on these platforms are openly calling for the execution of committee members,
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Uber is restarting shared rides in a handful of major US cities after a more than two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the company announced on Tuesday. The revamped rideshare carpool option, dubbed UberX Share, is now available in nine cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The company
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s board of directors has unanimously recommended that the social media company’s shareholders vote to approve its sale to Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Twitter plans to hold a special shareholder meeting for a vote on the acquisition, one of the final steps needed to close
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s board of directors has unanimously recommended that the social media company’s shareholders vote to approve its sale to Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Twitter plans to hold a special shareholder meeting for a vote on the acquisition, one of the final steps needed to close
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh and CNN’s Beijing bureau NetEase appears to be in hot water. The Chinese gaming company delayed the launch of a widely anticipated video game in mainland China this week after one of its social media accounts was blocked for allegedly making a politically sensitive comment. “Diablo Immortal,” which was slated to be
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business President Joe Biden said he was “proud” of Apple’s retail workers in Towson, Maryland, who voted this weekend to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. “I’m proud of them,” the President told reporters from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Monday. “Workers have a right
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business President Joe Biden said he was “proud” of Apple’s retail workers in Towson, Maryland, who voted this weekend to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. “I’m proud of them,” the President told reporters from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Monday. “Workers have a right
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke and Chris Isidore, CNN Apple workers in Towson, Maryland, have voted to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. The landmark union election concluded on Saturday evening with 65 workers voting for unionization and 33 against it, a nearly two-to-one margin in favor of the union,
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Congressional Democrats are urging Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women’s health at risk. Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Elissa
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Congressional Democrats are urging Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women’s health at risk. Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Elissa
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn As the Golden State Warriors and their star point guard Steph Curry surged ahead of the Boston Celtics in Game 6 on Thursday to win their fourth NBA championship in eight seasons, it should also have been a win for the crypto industry. The Warriors were said to have previously inked a
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