Internet users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday. In an emailed statement 90 minutes after the outage was first reported, Verizon said it was working on the problem hurting Fios service “throughout the Northeast corridor” and that some service had already been restored. The telecom giant had reported a cut fiber in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it’s not clear if that issue was responsible for the outage. Verizon didn’t give any estimate in… Source link

Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.94% Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has bet big on artificial intelligence as central to the company’s future, investing billions of dollars to embed the technology in the conglomerate’s disparate divisions. Now, it is one of his trickiest management challenges. Over the past 18 months, Google’s parent has waded through one controversy after another involving its top researchers and… Source link

Benzinga Apple Expected To Join The $100 Billion Revenue Club When Earnings Are Released Did someone say $100 billion? And then some? Wall Street analysts did. A consensus sees Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) as joining that rarefied corporate crowd that’s broken the $100 billion in quarterly revenues mark when it opens the books Wednesday on its fiscal Q1. That’s a record for AAPL, of course, and may have been assisted by holiday sales of its new iPhone 12. But it’s one in a series of fresh… Source link

Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN, +1.00% Amazon Web Services revealed internet connectivity issues at one of it’s main data centers Tuesday, as internet issues affecting popular services such as Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +1.06% GOOGL, +0.90% Google products spread in the northeastern U.S. At around 11:15 a.m. Eastern, AWS, Google services, and Gmail all started seeing spikes in outage reports concentrated from… Source link

Pinterest should continue to benefit from online searches and interactions that previously took place in malls, with help from technology.  Augmented reality has been around for years, but had little interest from brands and consumers. COVID-19 forced the movement as much of the world began shopping from home. With many … Source link

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(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. is widely expected to report its sixth consecutive quarterly profit Wednesday — and potentially its first $1-billion quarter. That follows a remarkable year when Tesla’s stock split and skyrocketed, the company joined the S&P 500 Index and it sold almost half a million cars. Two years ago, the world’s leading electric carmaker was going through a rough patch. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive officer, informed employees in a January 2019 open letter that the… Source link

Benzinga Apple Expected To Join The $100 Billion Revenue Club When Earnings Are Released Did someone say $100 billion? And then some? Wall Street analysts did. A consensus sees Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) as joining that rarefied corporate crowd that’s broken the $100 billion in quarterly revenues mark when it opens the books Wednesday on its fiscal Q1. That’s a record for AAPL, of course, and may have been assisted by holiday sales of its new iPhone 12. But it’s one in a series of fresh… Source link

Search Engine Journal has been reporting on the ongoing fight between Google and Australia regarding the News Media Bargaining Code. Confusion ensued when Google continued to disagree with pending legislation that would force them to pay Australian publishers for the pleasure of showcasing their content in the SERPs, while simultaneously signing a deal to pay French publishers for their content. However, when you look at the two agreements side by side, there is a clear difference. The Story… Source link