Yahoo said it had stopped allowing its services to be accessible from mainland China “in recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment”, the second Western tech brand to quit the country in recent weeks. The company stopped providing content for users in mainland China as of Nov. 1, […]
From Pasadena to Palo Alto, callers in nine California area codes will be required to use 10-digit dialing when making phone calls beginning Sunday. The changes, which will affect thousands of California residents, stem from federal rules that will make it easier for callers to reach crisis resources. Callers who […]
For Chinese regulators, even a censored US-based social network was too much. Microsoft is shutting down its main LinkedIn service in China later this year as Beijing tightens its internet rules. Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is pulling the plug on LinkedIn in China nearly seven years after its launch, […]
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours Facebook Inc. blamed a global service outage that kept its social media apps offline for much of Monday […]
You knew Facebook was making the world shittier, but it’s so much worse than you realized. A Facebook whistleblower who brought internal documents detailing the company’s research to The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. Congress unmasked herself ahead of an interview she gave to “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday […]