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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Elon Musk issued his most direct threat yet to walk away from his purchase of Twitter on Monday, openly accusing the social media company of breaching the merger agreement by not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts. In a letter to Twitter’s head of legal,

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Dave Clark, Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer CEO, is resigning after 23 years at the e-commerce giant. Amazon announced Clark’s resignation, effective July 1, in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. In a tweet, Clark said: “I’ve had an incredible time at Amazon but it’s time for

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Tesla reportedly paid a consultancy firm to monitor employees’ Facebook interactions when some workers wanted to form a union at the company’s factory in Fremont, California. CNBC cited invoices and “other documents” that reportedly showed MWW PR monitored employees’ discussions on the platform regarding the company’s labor practices and a

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Russia has spent months either driving out American tech firms or watching them leave of their own accord over its war in Ukraine. But the country now finds itself stuck in a stalemate with one big tech company: Google. Many of Google’s services, including search, maps, Gmail and, perhaps most

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Microsoft is leaving the door open to employees who want to form or join a union. The tech giant will “respect” the right of its workers to organize and is “committed to creative and collaborative approaches” to work with unions, according to Microsoft’s president and vice chair, Brad Smith. “Recent

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business For much of her first decade at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg’s public stature grew alongside the size and influence of the company she helped run. As second-in-command to Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, she oversaw the massive growth of its core advertising business while positioning herself as an icon of corporate feminism. When

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business A former employee at digital marketplace OpenSea has been hit with the first-ever charges related to an alleged insider trading scheme involving digital assets, authorities announced Wednesday. Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at OpenSea, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering related

By Brian Fung and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as chief operating officer of Facebook-parent Meta, the company confirmed on Wednesday. In a post on Facebook, Sandberg did not disclose the reason for her departure from the company, which will take place in the fall. Sandberg said she planned to focus

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Wednesday began rolling out an Amber Alert feature on its platform to notify users of missing children in their area. The alerts, which will be available in the United States and two dozen other countries, will include details about the missing child, such as a photo, description and

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla office workers return to in-person work or leave the company. The policy, disclosed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla’s executive staff Tuesday, was first reported by electric vehicle news site Electrek. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office

By Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a sweeping Texas law on Tuesday that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms. By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block a