Verizon says its service is back after a 10-hour outage Verizon customers’ issues appeared to be concentrated in the eastern United States. Ian Carlos Campbell UpdatedThu, January 15, 2026 Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images Verizon’s network is experiencing technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing … Continue reading Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers
EU: TikTok Ordered To Add Search, Ad Filters by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, December 24, 2025 TikTok will introduce additional search options and filters, allowing users to find advertisements more easily after the European Commission received a commitment from the U.S.-based company to provide advertising repositories that ensure full transparency around ads on its … Continue reading TikTok Must Add Search Options, Filters For Ads Per EU Digital Services Act
Amazon’s AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours A massive outage highlights why relying on a few companies to power much of the internet is far from ideal. Kris Holt UpdatedTue, October 21, 2025 SOPA Images via Getty Images It felt like half of the … Continue reading Amazon’s AWS outage knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
Google Local Services Ads Get Automated by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2024 Google made changes to its Local Services Ads (LSA) this week. One feature will automatically select profile photos to display in advertisements, and the other aims to improve ad budgets by setting monthly maximums ad spend limit for certain account. … Continue reading Google Local Services Ads Get Automated
If Google Builds A Paywall For News, AI Subscription Services by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 24, 2024 Google is threatening to pull future investments in nonprofit news organizations across the U.S. if California passes a new bill. This is the second time Google said it would pause further investments in California newsrooms. The pause would … Continue reading If Google Builds A Paywall For News, AI Subscription Services
Google is urging those who have not yet fully migrated to Google Analytics 4 to do so as soon as possible to prevent potential data loss. Nicola Agius on April 5, 2024 Google issued a reminder that it will be discontinuing all Universal Analytics (UA) services and APIs on July 1, 2024. With Google Analytics … Continue reading Reminder – Google is turning off all Universal Analytics services and APIs
April 04, 2024 How business services companies are helping their clients become more efficient From keeping track of dinner reservations to assisting with navigating hospital parking lots, the companies recognized in the business services category of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies program aim to increase efficiency. BY Jay Woodruff Optimal efficiency has surely been the holy … Continue reading How business services companies are helping their clients become more efficient
A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services If you opt in, users on Mastodon can see and like your posts. Will Shanklin Updated Thu, Mar 21, 2024 Meta Fediverse support in Meta Threads is up and running in beta. Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Thursday that adult Threads users in … Continue reading A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services
Bluesky will let users run their own moderation services Users can subscribe to third-party labeling services for additional layers of moderation. Karissa Bell Wed, Mar 13, 2024 Bluesky Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing out one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own moderation services. … Continue reading Bluesky will let users run their own moderation services
EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses The DSA originally applied only to the big guys like Google and Meta. Now it governs almost all online platforms that reach a European audience. Kim Davis on February 16, 2024 The European Union’s Digital Services Act, aimed at preventing the spreading … Continue reading EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses
