A near miss: Sony’s original PlayStation launched in Japan on December 3, 1994 – exactly 25 years ago today. The Japanese electronics giant’s debut console was a smash hit that propelled Sony to major player status in the video game industry but it almost didn’t happen at all.

Nintendo in the late 1980s reached out to Sony to build a CD-ROM accessory for its upcoming Super Nintendo Entertainment System as well as a standalone device called the Play Station that

Why it matters: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, philanthropist Priscilla Chan, recently welcomed a TV camera crew into their home for the first time, offering a rare glimpse into the private lives of one of the world’s most public couples. It's an uplifting piece that paints the couple as surprisingly normal and comes at a time when Facebook could use some positive press.

Gayle King with CBS This Morning spoke with the Zuckerbergs on a variety of topics including family. They have two daughters,

What just happened? A report from the Office of the US Trade Representative reignites a trade conflict between the US and its allies, as it proposes a new set of sanctions levied at billions of dollars worth of goods imported from France. This could act as a roadblock in the OECD's broad effort to have 135 countries agree on how to tax multinational corporations and prevent them from shifting profits to tax havens.

The Trump Administration wants to impose a 100 percent tax on imports of French goods, including

In brief: Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019 are officially in the books and retailers are smiling all the way to the bank. After learning earlier this week that retailers posted a record $7.4 billion in online sales during Black Friday, we now have confirmation that Amazon had an equally as impressive retail run.

The e-commerce giant revealed that it turned in the best-ever Black Friday in the company’s history. Furthermore, the company said Cyber Monday was the single biggest shopping day

It’s hard enough keeping track and making sense of one technology megatrend at a time, but when you start trying to co-mingle two or even three of them together, well, generally speaking, all bets are off. Yet despite that seemingly unscalable challenge (and the buzzword bingo bonanza it implies), that’s exactly what the latest extension to a relatively new partnership between AT&T and Microsoft is attempting to do. In particular, the two companies are working to tie together cloud computing, 5

What just happened? Riot Games, the developer behind incredibly popular MOBA League of Legends, has settled a class-action lawsuit over gender discrimination that will see it pay $10 million to current and former female employees.

Back in 2018, two women who had worked at the studio sued the company, alleging that they had to endure sexual harassment and gender discrimination. The suit also described how women were paid less than men in the same or similar positions, and how the workplace turned a blind eye

Why it matters: Because of the US government’s sanctions on Huawei, the company’s Mate 30 series doesn’t have access to Google’s apps and services, but that’s not all: the handsets contains no components that originate from America.

With the Chinese giant placed on an entity list last May, US companies are not allowed to do business with Huawei without a license from the government. As reported by the Wall Street Journal , the effects of the ban were illustrated through a teardown