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Having trouble online today? Blame Amazon.

Amazon says that S3 is built for "99.999999999 percent durability," but on Tuesday we got the 0.000000001 percent. S3 is experiencing high error rates. We are working ... maybe it's not a great idea f... read more

How Google and Amazon Got Away With Not Being Regulated

Once upon a time, in the 1990s and 2000s, the web and the internet were new and everything ... to information (Google), good books for cheap (Amazon), or the building of a global community (Facebook). ... read more

Nigerian firm takes blame for routing Google traffic through China

The issue surfaced on Monday afternoon as internet ... not say how many users were affected or identify specific customers. Google representatives could not be reached on Tuesday to comment on Main On... read more

Amazon's growing pains in Seattle offer lessons to new hosts

The communities will be subject to outsized influence from a company used to getting what it wants and unfazed by blame, fairly or not ... to work. The area is also buoyed by blue-badged Amazon ... read more

Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive

While it’s not clear what exactly prompted Trump’s criticism, the tweet did spark a wave of debate as to whether the Postal Service is indeed failing and, if so, whether Amazon is to blame ... release... read more

What Amazon's HQ2 means for what is already a hotly competitive market for tech talent

Amazon.com ... It’s not a coincidence that Greater Washington is home to a high concentration of software developers, in part thanks to the larger number of federal contractors doing systems integrati... read more

Amazon officially announces its HQ2 will be split between New York and Virginia

Now that HQ2 is official, the furious speculation from the last year can now be put to rest, and Amazon will likely now get to work planning its new headquarters ... something of a curveball because i... read more

Google Home and Amazon Echo Can Store Your Voice Recordings. Here's When They Could Be Used Against You.

It’s not just a software ... that are out there,” Verdi said. Amazon and Google both have relatively robust cybersecurity arms and patch their connected devices’ vulnerabilities regularly. But when it ... read more

Online Ads Not Working for You? Blame the Creative

After analyzing the highest and lowest performers from its database of more than 170,000 online ads, the Millward Brown company determined that creative factors such as persistent branding, strong cal... read more

President Obama, Gov. Nixon, an Anonymous Cop: The Internet Looks for Blame in Ferguson

Ryan was working on his laptop in ... truer when the barrel-owners happen to own Amazon.com and AOL.com. But the story is moving at Twitter-speed, and there is little time to waste before assigning po... read more

Having trouble online today? Blame Amazon.

Amazon says that S3 is built for "99.999999999 percent durability," but on Tuesday we got the 0.000000001 percent. S3 is experiencing high error rates. We are working ... it's not a great idea for one ... read more