Business

Elon Musk said Friday his social media company X would scrap a feature that allows users to block posts from specific accounts.... Read more

If you're like most people, when you saw an update to the terms and conditions to use the New York Times' website last week, you just accepted them and moved on.... Read more

For centuries, regulations of the legal profession have made it clear there can't be an engagement in legal practice by unqualified entities. In other words, the practice of law is limited to those admitted as licensed legal practitioners in the jurisdiction.... Read more

A ban on using apps to collect data in order to personalize advertising would significantly reduce the spectrum of available apps and the number of updates, according to a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) based on the ban concerning Android apps for children. The findings, published in... Read more

The Justice Department said Wednesday that two directors resigned from Nextdoor's board in response to the department's efforts to enforce an antitrust law aimed at barring executives from holding similar positions at rival companies.... Read more

Intel Corporation has terminated a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor in Israel after failing to get needed regulatory approval, the US chip maker announced Wednesday.... Read more

A bank and some high-profile tech companies have chopped hundreds of Bay Area jobs in a fresh round of layoffs—although the pace of tech sector layoffs has greatly eased.... Read more

Bank of Ireland apologized on Wednesday after fixing a technical issue that allowed customers to withdraw or transfer more money than was in their accounts.... Read more

Chinese internet giant Tencent announced on Wednesday a 41 percent year-on-year jump in second-quarter net income, but missed analyst forecasts for revenue.... Read more

Social media app TweetDeck began going behind a paywall on Tuesday, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it.... Read more

Threads, the simple, bare-bones text-based social network created by Facebook owner Meta, burst onto the scene during a particularly bad week for the rival then still known as Twitter. It quickly amassed 100 million signups—a huge feat for a newcomer in the space—and was dubbed as a "Twitter killer."... Read more

Amazon.com Inc. is cracking down on U.S. workers who have ignored its return-to-office guidelines, in the latest example of companies attempting to reduce the amount of time employees work remotely.... Read more

Government legislation to flag and moderate dangerous content on social media can be effective in reducing harm, even on fast-paced platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) new research shows.... Read more

Belgian pilots staged their latest strike against Ryanair on Monday, forcing the Irish operator to cancel 88 flights through Charleroi, one of its busiest European hubs.... Read more

Ford has hired away a key Apple executive to run a new business unit that will sell software-related subscription services to vehicle owners.... Read more