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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business As Russia’s war in Ukraine and its diplomatic conflict with the United States both continue to escalate, the warnings that Russian hackers could go after US businesses have gained new urgency. US President Joe Biden on Monday urged business leaders to strengthen their online defenses, warning that his Russian counterpart

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Instagram is bringing back a version of its news feed that sorts posts in reverse chronological order rather than ranked according to the platform’s algorithms. However, the company said it will leave its algorithm ranking method on by default. The new option, which rolls out to users globally on

By Brian Fung, CNN Microsoft has confirmed it was breached by the hacker group Lapsus$, adding to the cyber gang’s growing list of victims. In a blog post late Tuesday, Microsoft said Lapsus$ had compromised one of its accounts, resulting in “limited access” to company systems but not the data of any Microsoft customers. “Our

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The attorney general of Washington, D.C. announced Monday he is suing Grubhub, alleging that the company harmed consumers during the pandemic by charging hidden fees and by misleading consumers about them using so-called “dark patterns” — along with a battery of other claims. The food-delivery service, which grew in prominence

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster is calling on Congress to swiftly fund investments in American computer chip manufacturing, a plan championed by the Biden administration to address global semiconductor shortages. “It’s absolutely critical,” McMaster, a retired Army lieutenant general, told CNN in a phone interview. “If China has

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Google has reached a settlement with six engineers who alleged the company unlawfully retaliated against them over their workplace organizing efforts. The settlement, first reported by Vice News Monday, was confirmed by labor attorney Laurie Burgess, who represented the workers, as well as in a court filing Friday. The

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, said it will replace Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson with a long-time employee on the company’s next supersonic jaunt to the edge of space. The company announced Monday it will replace Davidson with its chief architect of its suborbital rocket, Gary Lai. Davidson,

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business A number of Apple services were hit by a short-lived outage for some users on Monday afternoon. Reports began to swirl online of users experiencing issues with iMessage, iCloud and more of the tech giant’s tools starting around 1 p.m. ET. Apple eventually acknowledged at least 11 outages on its

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business A South African judge has put the brakes on a $270 million real estate project that includes a regional headquarters for Amazon, saying that indigenous people who consider the land to be sacred must be consulted. Judge Patricia Goliath said in a ruling on Friday that Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust

By Jackie Wattles and Jennifer Korn, CNN SpaceX has a new deal to launch internet-beaming satellites for its chief competitor in the satellite business — British company OneWeb. The somewhat awkward pairing, announced by OneWeb on Monday, comes after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine effectively brought a halt to Russian launches of commercial Western satellites. A

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Match on Monday rolled out a new service called Stir that aims to remove some of the barriers around dating as a single parent. The dating services company said Stir focuses on meeting the specific dating needs of single parents that aren’t typically addressed on mainstream dating apps. With

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Since the start of this year, a series of advertisements have appeared on television screens and billboards across the United States, with ominous warnings to texters. “I think I left the car unlocked, can you check?” reads a text message displayed on one of the billboards. The consequence, outlined next

By Brian Fung, CNN Business PayPal said Thursday it is expanding its services for Ukrainian accounts and allowing them to send and receive money from friends and family. The payments company also said in a letter to the Ukrainian government that Ukrainian account holders will be able to transfer money from their PayPal accounts to

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business After some of the hundreds of Black students stranded in the besieged city of Sumy, Ukraine, released desperate pleas for help on social media earlier this month, a grassroots group of volunteers sprang into action to help them safely evacuate the war zone. Black Women for Black Lives, a new

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Barely a week after Apple unveiled its first budget 5G smartphone, Samsung announced a competing model that rivals it on price. At a brief virtual event on Thursday, Samsung showed off its new Galaxy A53 5G smartphone, which packs much of its higher-end flagship line into a more budget-friendly