President Donald Trump’s finance chief, a confidant who has worked for the family’s real estate business since the early 1970s, was granted immunity in the federal probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on today. Read more
Facebook has pulled one of its own products from Apple’s app store because it didn’t want to stop tracking what people were doing on their iPhones. Read more
United Airlines announced today that they were canceling all flight in and out of Maui on Friday. Read more
The Trump administration has laid down rules aimed at preventing residents in high-tax states from avoiding a new cap on widely popular state and local tax deductions. Read more
Google announced this week that it had disabled dozens of YouTube channels and other accounts linked to a state-run Iranian broadcaster for a political influence campaign. Read more
Ala Moana Center, Oahu’s largest open-air shopping mall, along with the isle’s other major malls, are closed today due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Lane. Read more
New Mexico’s largest electric utility is asking state regulators for approval to join a wholesale trading market that allows participants in several western states to buy and sell energy to better balance supply and demand. Read more
Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behavior, a far larger discovery than a “sophisticated” effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare. Read more
Hawaiian Airlines, which expected great promise from China and spent about a decade trying to get the green light to initiate service, has suspended its only route there after about four years due to low demand. Read more
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Slack, the 4-year-old workplace messaging company, said today that it had raised $427 million in new funding, just a year after its last huge infusion of money. The latest round values the company at $7.1 billion. Read more
The Trump administration added to its growing list of sanctions against Russia on today as U.S. lawmakers urged tighter economic restrictions on Moscow and Britain’s top diplomat accused Russia’s leader of pursuing policies that are making the world more dangerous. Read more
Federal regulators are alleging that Facebook’s advertising tools allow landlords and real estate brokers to engage in housing discrimination. Read more
The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate prostitution in a scheme to give free ads to prostitutes in a bid to draw them away from competitors. Read more
Greece officially completes its bailout program on Monday, after eight years of cutbacks enforced in return for massive loans and following an economic collapse on the scale of the Great Depression. Read more
What do you do when your CEO confesses that he’s cracking under the stress of his job? Read more
In less than six months, DoorDash Inc.’s valuation has nearly tripled, climbing to $4 billion. Read more
Google has changed a help page that erroneously described how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying for users that it still tracks their location even if they turn the setting off. Read more
A Los Angeles hearing provided a window into the state’s emerging cannabis economy, in which early enthusiasm for broad legal sales has been followed by anxiety and frustration across a swath of the industry. Read more
Sports betting is off and running in New Jersey, with three casinos and two racetracks taking in $40.6 million in wagers in July, the first full month it was legal. Read more
The founders of the dating app Tinder, along with current executives and some of its employees, filed a lawsuit today against IAC/InterActiveCorp and its Match Group subsidiary for allegedly bilking them by manipulating financial information to create a lowball estimate of Tinder’s value. Read more
Even if “Location History” is off on your phone, Google often still stores your precise location. Read more
