Time Warner is changing its name to WarnerMedia now that its $85 billion deal with AT&T has closed, and Turner CEO John Martin is departing the company, according to an internal memo from an AT&T executive. The memo, written by John Stankey, the new head of Time Warner, outlined a new operating structure for the […]

The irony of the Comcast-Disney battle to buy the majority of 21st Century Fox is that CEOs Brian Roberts and Bob Iger could both walk away happy. All they’d have to do is split up Fox. And yet, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Disney wants Fox’s movie studio and owned content properties […]

Google’s annual diversity report reveals that the company’s workforce is still largely white and male and that it made very little progress in the last year to change the ratios. The report’s publication follows last week’s annual shareholder meeting, where employees bucked the company to advocate for more diversity, and comes as Google faces multiple, […]

A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday that a Russian company charged with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is not entitled to review grand jury materials and gave the two sides 10 days to agree on rules for sharing evidence. Lawyers for the Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting, had last month […]

Dropbox shares soared for a second day in a row, capping a massive rally this week for the cloud storage vendor and other newly public software companies. Zuora and DocuSign both jumped more than 10 percent for the week. Dropbox surged 32 percent, adding almost $4 billion in stock market value since last Friday. Investors […]

Despite the ubiquity of mobile payments, a top executive at Venmo says the world is still a few generations away from abandoning cash altogether. “It’s a matter of time — but it’s going to be a long time, not a next year kind of thing,” said Michael Vaughan, the chief operating officer of Venmo, at […]

Apple has signed a multiyear deal with Oprah Winfrey as part of the hardware giant’s push into original content, the company said Friday. Winfrey will create “original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world,” Apple said in a statement. The actress and philanthropist has dominated daytime TV for decades […]

A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump‘s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned. The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated […]

You’ve probably received a bunch of emails from companies telling you that they’re changing their privacy policies, and perhaps asking you for permission to keep sending you email. And, if you’re like most Americans, those emails went straight into the trash. This is causing a nightmare for companies that rely on email newsletters or offers […]

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 4, 2018 in San Jose, California. New software that Apple will launch for the iPhone and iPad in the coming months will make managing notifications and alerts much less […]