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US car sales have picked up again — and Americans are back to buying vehicles at their pre-pandemic pace, according to General Motors. As the nation’s largest automaker, GM has a pulse on industrywide trends, and the company said overall car sales to US consumers are now back to where they were before auto sales

Adobe has officially killed off Flash Player, the buggy, hated, security vulnerability of a web browser plug-in that was once widely used for viewing rich content like games, videos and other media online. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. Although Flash played a crucial role in the early days of

Microsoft is rumored to be working on a major redesign of Windows 10 that could bring big changes to the way the PC operating system looks and functions. Windows 10 could use a refresh. Aside from twice-annual tweaks, Windows 10 been mostly unchanged since its release in 2015. Six years is long in the tooth

Georgia isn’t just the center of the political universe. It’s center stage on Wall Street, too. The Peach State’s Senate runoffs will decide control of the US Senate — and that in turn will play a pivotal role in shaping the economic recovery as well as the investing environment. “It is impossible to overstate how

McDonald’s is launching new sandwiches next month in an effort to win fast food’s chicken war. On Monday, the company announced three versions of a new chicken sandwich, which will be available nationally on February 24: The Crispy Chicken Sandwich, topped with pickles and served on a potato roll, the Spicy Chicken Sandwich, which adds

Battery electric vehicles accounted for more than half of all cars sold in Norway last year, putting the country way out in front in efforts to kill off the internal combustion engine. And Tesla lost its sales crown to the Volkswagen Group. Norway is using huge tax incentives to help ensure that every new passenger

Staying home and gaming is definitely a trend during the pandemic, but it has been hard for people to get their hands on the latest consoles. Since their November launches, Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S consoles have generated greater demand than the companies can keep up with, frustrating customers

Gary Cohn, who quit a top job at Goldman Sachs to join the Trump administration in 2017, is the new vice chairman at tech giant IBM. Cohn said in a tweet Tuesday that he was “honored to be joining IBM,” which he described as “one the world’s most important companies, providing technology that helps organizations

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Alibaba is shutting down its music streaming app next month, signaling an end to the Chinese tech firm’s big music ambitions. The company announced Tuesday that Xiami Music will end February 5 “because of adjustments in business development.” The news comes as the company co-founded by Jack Ma faces pressure from regulators on several fronts.

Haven, an ambitious health care company formed just three years ago as a partnership between Amazon, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, is shutting down. “Haven will end its operations at the end of February,” said Haven spokesperson Brooke Thurston in an email to CNN Business. The news was first reported by CNBC. The

More than 170 prominent business leaders signed a letter urging Congress to accept the Electoral College results that declared Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. “This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward,” the letter reads. “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have won

Jack Ma’s businesses are under enormous pressure right now. But the co-founder of China’s most successful tech empire and legendary billionaire entrepreneur hasn’t been heard from in months. Ma hasn’t made a public appearance or social media post since late October, just over a week before a much anticipated stock market listing of Alibaba’s financial

Hundreds of employees at Google and its parent, Alphabet, have launched a union, a rare step for the tech industry that also represents the biggest and most organized challenge yet to the company’s executive leadership. Announced Monday morning, the Alphabet Workers’ Union will be run by employees and open both to full-time workers and contractors