Apple Is Worth $2 Trillion — 1st American Company To Hit Milestone Apple first crossed the $1 trillion mark just two years ago. The iPhone maker and a handful of other tech giants propelled the S&P 500 index to a new record this week. Shannon Bond
Amazon Thinks It Will Need More — Not Fewer — Offices In Big Cities At a time of mass work from home and many moving to spacious suburbs, Amazon is funding a large expansion of corporate real estate and jobs in six U.S. cities. Alina Selyukh
User Coalition Fights To Keep Chinese App WeChat In U.S. Market President Trump recently issued an executive order that would effectively ban the Chinese app WeChat — starting in September. The order says the app poses a national security threat. John Ruwitch
News Brief: Facebook Helping Voters, Kamala Harris And Representation, Thai Protests Facebook is launching a tool to help users register to vote. Kamala Harris' Black and Asian identities are making history. And, Thai students protest the military.
Top Facebook Official: Our Aim Is To Make Lying On The Platform 'More Difficult' Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that the company is working harder than ever to counteract efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Ashish Valentine
Netflix Is Letting Some People Speed Up Playback. That's A Big Deal For Blind Fans People who are blind spend a lot of time listening to words. So much that they often prefer to listen at faster speeds, including for TV shows. James Doubek
California Judge Orders Uber And Lyft To Consider All Drivers Employees Uber and Lyft have been fighting California over whether drivers are employees, entitled to benefits, or independent contractors. A state judge ordered them to consider all those drivers employees. Bobby Allyn
Advocates For Deaf And Blind Laud Netflix's New Playback Features NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Everette Bacon, a board member with the National Federation of the Blind, about Netflix's new playback features, which he says will improve accessibility.
Trump Signs Executive Order That Will Effectively Ban Use Of TikTok In the U.S. The president also issued an executive order aimed at cutting ties between the U.S. and the owner of the popular Chinese communications and social media app WeChat. Bobby Allyn
Twitter, Facebook Remove Trump Post Over False Claim About Children And COVID-19 Both social networks said the president's false claims that children are "almost immune" from COVID-19 violated its policy on coronavirus misinformation. Shannon Bond