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Fred Dufour | AFP | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. It’s not the first time Trump has criticized big tech companies. He has previously said Twitter “shadow …

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co., center, speaks to members of the media at an event during the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Jan. 14, 2018. Moody’s downgraded Ford’s credit rating to one notch …

Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018.  Shares of Amazon rose nearly 2 percent Wednesday after a price target boost from Morgan Stanley, and it’s …

Craig Warga | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mannequins stand next to merchandise displayed for sale at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in West Nyack, New York. Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods plunged by as much as 12 percent in premarket trading Wednesday after the retailer said it sold less merchandise …

Christie Hemm Klok | The New York Times Instagram’s founders, Kevin Systrom, left, and Mike Krieger, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., April 24, 2017. Instagram, now with 700 million users, resembles Facebook in 2009 to 2012, when it went from being something people used occasionally to something …

Scott McIntyre | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer browses televisions inside a Costco Wholesale store in Miami, Florida.  Consumer confidence rose in August to its highest level since October 2000, building on July’s solid result. The Conference Board’s index rose to 133.4 in August, despite expectations from a survey …

Stephen Lam | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Google rolled out a series of search tools Monday to help military veterans find better jobs after returning to civilian life, the company said in …

Robert Trachtenberg | ABC | Getty Images ABC’s ‘Roseanne’ stars Ames McNamara, Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Emma Kenney, Jayden Rey, Roseanne Barr, Michael Fishman, John Goodman, Lecy Goranson, and Sarah Chalke. It’s clear that Roseanne Barr will not be a part of the “Roseanne” spinoff, but a huge mystery surrounds …

Tim Rue | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Jet Blue aircraft takes off from Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, CA. JetBlue Airways is raising baggage fees, becoming the first major airline to charge $30 for the first checked bag. Beginning with tickets purchased Monday, Aug. 27, the airline will …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, holds his phone after the morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 13, 2018.  Tech executives have a higher profile than ever before, whether …