The US economy added 216,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7%.

After the Indian government banned 59 apps owned by Chinese firms last week, the videoconferencing app Zoom is fighting xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned. It’s not — the company is American and is scrambling to let Indians know. In a blog post on Tuesday, Velchamy Sankarlingam, Zoom’s president of product and…

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Feb. 15, 2023. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters If you received business payments via apps such as PayPal or Venmo or e-commerce companies such as eBay, Etsy or Poshmark in 2023, your tax return may now be a little less complicated. The IRS announced Tuesday that 2023 would…

“I talk to a lot of banks,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) told Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “and they’re really not happy with your agency.” He urged Chopra to “be responsive to the clientele you’re supposed to be helping.” With admirable restraint, Chopra replied: “Just to be clear, the clientele of…

Facebook is suing two developers and a Spanish company it alleges sold software that delivered fake likes and comments on Instagram, and unlawfully scraped user data from Facebook. Facebook filed separate lawsuits in Spain and California today against Mohammad Zaghar, a Moroccan developer, and Marcos Gómez Platón, a Spanish developer, and his company MGP25 Cyberint…