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The family of a slain journalist is asking the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove online footage of her shooting death.

Apple announced plans on Tuesday to hold a special event with the tagline “Unleashed” on Oct 18.

The controversy over what Facebook Inc. has said about social and emotional hazards stemming from its products could become a test of regulators’ growing interest in policing corporate risks that hurt reputations more than profits.

Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday that she plans to brief the embattled social media giant’s Oversight Board in the coming days regarding her findings on harm caused by the company’s platforms.

Back Bay Baptist Church in St. Martin announced at the end of September that it would accept digital currencies after COVID-19 made it difficult to collect traditional payments.

Facebook took down, then reinstated a page run by parents critical of school COVID policies but never explained its actions to the administrators, Jonathan Zacherson, founder of “Reopen California Schools” told Fox Business.

Months before Cristiano Amon started as CEO of Qualcomm Inc., QCOM -1.01% he already was at work on his first crisis. To solve it, he sat in a mostly empty meeting room in Taipei and pleaded with executives from one of the world’s biggest semiconductor makers for more chips.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday suggested that his decision to move the auto maker's headquarters from Fremont, California, to Austin, Texas, was inspired by a Democratic assemblywoman who tweeted, “F--k Elon Musk," in 2020.

A state-sponsored cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting companies globally including those in the U.S., a new report says.

Forbes has released its 40th annual list of the 400 wealthiest people across the world and the majority are Americans.

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on for-profit education, citing deceptive practices.

Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

If California has been America’s VC motherboard, Silicon Valley is the high-speed processor. But Silicon Valley’s dominance is fading, with its share of U.S. deals falling below 20 percent for the first time in history.

Melinda French Gates, already one of the world's most prominent philanthropists, will now take on the job of publisher.

Snapchat said Thursday it is ramping up efforts to identify and remove drug dealers from its platform, days after federal officials warned that counterfeit pills laced with deadly fentanyl were widely available for sale on social media apps.

Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking detected by Microsoft over the past year, with a 58% share, mostly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members

Facebook has faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers due to a series of scandals regarding its business practices in recent years, but the negative publicity hasn’t prevented the social media giant from generating massive revenue.

An attorney for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Wednesday there was still “more to come” regarding her revelations about the company’s purported failure to address the harmful effects of its platforms.

Facebook Inc. FB +0.13% has slowed the rollout of new products in recent days, people familiar with the matter said, amid media reports and congressional hearings related to a trove of internal documents showing harms from its platforms.

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