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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block US chipmaker Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion takeover of UK chip design firm Arm, saying it would stifle competition and give the combined company too much control over chip technology and designs. The lawsuit threatens to scuttle the world’s biggest ever semiconductor

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Like many other Spotify users, I opened the music streaming app on Wednesday and received a cheerful message: “Your 2021 Wrapped is here,” it read, imploring me to explore the top songs, artists, and podcasts I listened to “in a year that was far from normal.” I cringed while tapping

By Jennifer Korn Like many gamers in recent weeks, Nicole DeSantis, 33, from outside Philadelphia, combed through social media sites trying to find insider information on where to get a PlayStation 5 this holiday season. Stemming from the global chip shortage, video game consoles this year are particularly hard to come by. After successfully scoring

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Uber wants to make booking a ride in India as easy as sending a WhatsApp message. The San Francisco-based company has partnered with Meta to launch a ride booking ability via its WhatsApp service in India, the two tech firms said in a statement on Thursday. The integration — the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood suffered a ransomware attack in October that compromised the personal information of about 400,000 patients, the health care provider said Wednesday. The unidentified perpetrator stole documents from the Planned Parenthood affiliate that contained sensitive data on some patients such as their insurance information, their

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Days after Jack Dorsey resigned as CEO of Twitter, his other company is changing its name. Square, the digital payments company Dorsey co-founded and remains at the helm of, announced on Wednesday that it is rebranding as “Block.” Block will represent the corporate parent of Square, which will remain the

By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, says it has evidence the Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to pose as journalists and activists to stoke tensions about the crisis at the border between Belarus and Poland. “These fictitious personas posted criticism of Poland in English, Polish, and Kurdish, including pictures

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Facebook will no longer limit users from searching for or praising Kyle Rittenhouse, following a court’s acquittal of all charges facing the teenager at the center of a deadly shooting in Kenosha, Wisc., last August. Though Facebook will continue to remove posts that glorify the deaths involved in the Kenosha

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Business Twitter has updated its privacy policy so that it can remove images of people that have been posted without their consent, the company said in a blog post Tuesday. Under its current policy, the social media giant prohibits the publication of people’s private information, including addresses, phone numbers, identity

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business David Marcus, the executive in charge of the troubled cryptocurrency project at Meta Platforms — the company formerly known as Facebook — announced Tuesday he will step down at the end of the year to pursue other projects. Marcus, who previously was the president of PayPal, joined Facebook seven years

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Parag Agrawal isn’t a household name, but he could soon become one as he takes the lead at one of the world’s most influential social media companies. On Monday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was stepping down and named Agrawal, the company’s chief technology officer, as his replacement. Agrawal