Ben Muessig

A judge issued an order temporarily halting the U.S. Department of Commerce from implementing restrictions that would remove WeChat from U.S. app stores.

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Twitter Inc. said Thursday that it will no longer accept advertising from Sputnik and Russia Today, pointing to the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the two Kremlin-funded news organizations were part a Russian government operation to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

All 3 billion Yahoo accounts that existed in August 2013 were affected by a massive data breach, three times as many accounts as the company first reported.

Former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick named two new directors to the ride-hailing company’s board ahead of an expected vote next week on corporate governance.