By Kelly McCleary, CNN “Saturday Night Live” kicked off its show this week with its President Joe Biden reviewing Russia’s efforts to spread misinformation on social media in Ukraine. The scene opened with Biden, played by James Austin Johnson, surrounded by advisers in the Oval Office, including a military adviser portrayed by Kenan Thompson. Johnson’s
Continue Reading By Kelly McCleary, CNN “Saturday Night Live” kicked off its show this week with its President Joe Biden reviewing Russia’s efforts to spread misinformation on social media in Ukraine. The scene opened with Biden, played by James Austin Johnson, surrounded by advisers in the Oval Office, including a military adviser portrayed by Kenan Thompson. Johnson’s
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business In October 2020, the moment Trish Priest had been dreading arrived: Tab, the decades-old diet drink, was being killed off by parent company Coca-Cola. What to some was a mere news blip was a crisis for Priest. “I lived in fear of it being discontinued for years,” she said. “When
Continue Reading By Kelly McCleary, CNN “Saturday Night Live” kicked off its show this week with its President Joe Biden reviewing Russia’s efforts to spread misinformation on social media in Ukraine. The scene opened with Biden, played by James Austin Johnson, surrounded by advisers in the Oval Office, including a military adviser portrayed by Kenan Thompson. Johnson’s
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by Reuters Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms Inc has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints. Meta, which disbanded the CrowdTangle team last year, has been under pressure to provide greater transparency into its platforms. CrowdTangle founder and CEO Brandon Silverman left Facebook last year. The tool
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Just as its classes promise, Peloton itself has been getting quite a robust workout lately as it deals with a series of unfortunate events. Peloton bumped up the cost of its bike and treadmill weeks after slashing prices. It had a damaging treadmill recall after the death of an infant.
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Buzzy beauty startup Glossier has laid off a third of its corporate staff, founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in an email to employees. Glossier has branded itself as both a technology and beauty company — but of the more than 80 corporate employees laid off, the technology team was
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Bank of America slashed its first-quarter economic outlook for the United States on Friday because of disruptions caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant. Economists at Bank of America said in a report to clients they now expect US gross domestic product to increase at an annual rate of just 1%
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Airlines have canceled thousands of flights this weekend as a powerful winter storm packing strong winds and many inches of snow is set to envelop major cities on the East Coast. According to FlightAware, nearly 5,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled through Saturday and
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Just a day after Spotify agreed to remove Neil Young’s music from its service, Apple Music trolled its streaming rival by giving the musician some rock star treatment. In a tweet sent late Thursday, and later pinned to the top of the official Apple Music Twitter account, Apple called
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Super Bowl already has a winner: E-Trade. The online broker, now owned by Morgan Staney, is bringing back its famous talking baby for the February 13 big game. A source close to the company confirmed that E-Trade will run a commercial during Super Bowl LVI on NBC
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Just a day after Spotify agreed to remove Neil Young’s music from its service, Apple Music trolled its streaming rival by giving the musician some rock star treatment. In a tweet sent late Thursday, and later pinned to the top of the official Apple Music Twitter account, Apple called
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Natural gas futures are climbing sharply ahead of a blizzard that will force millions of Americans to crank up the heat. If maintained, the rally will translate to higher home heating costs in the weeks to come, adding to the inflationary pressures hitting the US economy. Natural gas futures expiring
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Natural gas futures are climbing sharply ahead of a blizzard that will force millions of Americans to crank up the heat. If maintained, the rally will translate to higher home heating costs in the weeks to come, adding to the inflationary pressures hitting the US economy. Natural gas futures expiring
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that he believes the company’s goal of a humanoid robot is the most important thing it’s working on. The electric vehicle manufacturer first announced its robot plans at its AI Day last year. Instead of showing off any sort of prototype, a person in
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Six months ago, Elon Musk said he would stop attending investor conference calls unless there was “something important” that he needed to say. He should have stuck with that plan. After skipping Tesla’s third-quarter call, he returned to the call Wednesday to discuss fourth quarter’s record earnings and revenue. But
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By Anneken Tappe and Tami Luhby, CNN Business Americans’ paychecks continued to rise at the end of 2021. But along with that, so did prices. Compensation for American workers climbed 4% between December 2020 and December 2021, marking the biggest increase since the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private
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Opinion by Brian Deese for CNN Business Perspectives The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities in America’s domestic manufacturing base. The nation’s reliance on globally fragmented supply chains has led to shortages of everything from personal protective equipment to semiconductors to shipping containers. And these supply weaknesses have been a primary driver of elevated
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Airlines have canceled thousands of flights this weekend as a powerful winter storm packing strong winds and many inches of snow is set to envelop major cities on the East Coast. According to FlightAware, nearly 5,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled through Saturday and
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Worries over soaring prices and the Omicron variant of the coronavirus soured Americans’ views of the economy in January. US consumer sentiment in January fell nearly 5% to the lowest level since November 2011, the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey showed Friday. Survey respondents felt worse about both the
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