By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is raising the price of battery replacements for all out-of-warranty iPhone models prior to the current iPhone 14 lineup, the company confirmed on its website. Starting March 1, Apple will charge $89 for battery replacements for iPhone X through iPhone 13 models, a $20 increase from the current
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN ESPN is sticking by its reporting that the NFL had initially planned to resume Monday’s football game after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field — a claim the NFL vehemently denies. The NFL postponed Monday’s game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals following
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN The NFL’s decision not to resume or replay Monday’s Bills-Bengals game, which was halted after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, won’t be particularly costly the world’s richest sports league. After the league announced late Thursday that the game will not be completed, the home-team Cincinnati Bengals notified fans who
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN One year after losing the title it held for nearly a century as the top car seller in America, General Motors is back on top. GM reported Wednesday US sales of 2.3 million vehicles. Strong fourth quarter sales, up 41% from a year ago, allowed it to end the year with
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN James “Buster” Corley, co-founder of the popular restaurant and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s, has died. He was 72. Dave & Busters said that Corley was an “innovative and creative force” in a statement confirming his death. “His pioneering spirit and steadfast belief that ‘everybody is somebody’ set the foundation for
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A new take on a foldable phone. A pricey toilet sensor that monitors hydration and vitamin levels. And an AI-powered oven. The Consumer Electronics Show, now in its 56th year, kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a familiar mix of cutting edge technology and oddball gadgets. The
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Coinbase, one of the most popular US crypto-trading platforms, agreed to a $100 million settlement after New York regulators found “significant failures” to comply with the state’s anti-money-laundering laws. The settlement includes a $50 million penalty Coinbase must pay to the New York Department of Financial Services and a pledge to
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN The number of available jobs in the United States totaled 10.46 million in November, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Labor. That’s more than the 10 million total job openings that economists were expecting, according to Refinitiv, and slightly lower than the upwardly revised October total of 10.51
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Salesforce said Wednesday that it will cut approximately 10% of its workforce and reduce its real estate footprint, making it the latest tech company to slash expenses as broader economic uncertainty continues to hit Silicon Valley particularly hard. In a letter to employees announcing the job cuts, Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s chair
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN European stocks are pushing higher for the third straight day as investors cheer signs that inflation, supply chain bottlenecks and natural gas prices are all easing Europe’s Stoxx 600 index rose 1% in Wednesday trading, and is now up 3.3% since markets kicked off 2023 trading on Monday. Germany’s DAX rose
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady, CNN Aldi recorded its highest-ever December sales in the United Kingdom, as shoppers squeezed by searing food price inflation flocked to the German discount supermarket chain to save money on groceries. Sales topped £1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) for the first time, up 26% year on year, with the FIFA World Cup also
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Inflation fears roiled the markets in 2022. Now, investors may have scarier things to worry about in 2023, according to a report from global research and consulting firm Eurasia Group. Most notable? Concerns about the increasingly chaotic geopolitical landscape. “Inflation shockwaves” still feature as one of Eurasia’s top political
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Inflation fears roiled the markets in 2022. Now, investors may have scarier things to worry about in 2023, according to a report from global research and consulting firm Eurasia Group. Most notable? Concerns about the increasingly chaotic geopolitical landscape. “Inflation shockwaves” still feature as one of Eurasia’s top political
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business “Sports is important. And suddenly it’s not.” Those were the salient words of “SportsCenter” host Scott Van Pelt Monday night after Damar Hamlin suddenly collapsed on the field during the high stakes Bills-Bengals game. Within moments, Van Pelt knew that the injury was very different than those normally sustained on
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Skip Bayless spent a third straight day defending his controversial tweet about Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, this time during a tense exchange Wednesday with his Fox Sports talk show co-host Shannon Sharpe. Sharpe, a former NFL player and member of the NFL Hall of Fame, returned to the duo’s talk
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Tesla’s China chief has reportedly been given a big promotion. Tom Zhu has been handed Tesla’s US assembly plants and sales operations in North America and Europe as additional responsibilities, leaving just the Berlin Gigafactory outside his remit, according to media reports on Tuesday. The reports have intensified speculation that China-born
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN Japan is offering to pay families to move out of its overcrowded capital, in an effort to revitalize countryside towns and boost the falling birth rate. Starting in April, families in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including those headed by single parents, will be eligible to receive 1 million
Continue Reading By Swati Gupta and Rhea Mogul, CNN Angry crowds gathered in Delhi on Tuesday, demanding justice for a scooter rider who was killed and dragged by a car for miles through the streets of India’s capital. Delhi police said the 20-year-old woman’s scooter collided with the car in the early hours of January 1 before
Continue Reading Sophia Saifi and Diksha Madhok Pakistan’s economic woes show no signs of letting up in 2023. The South Asian nation announced a new energy conservation plan Tuesday as its fragile economy continues to struggle with multiple challenges. The government has ordered all markets to close by 8.30 pm and restaurants by 10 pm, according to
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk has resigned less than a year into the job, the company said Tuesday. Hauk, who was also CEO of the company’s Pink apparel brand geared to teens, notified the company of her resignation last week, the company said. She will leave Victoria’s Secret in
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