By reducing barriers to entry and making price information more widely available, the Internet is pushing down the prices of goods ranging from cars to books, and of services from insurance to air travel.
Following news that Yahoo was laying off about 600 people, BusinessInsider reports that the internet giant is shutting down Delicious, a social bookmarking web site.
The Dow Jones US Internet index is down 11.7% over the past three months, essentially double the decline in the Spyder Trust ( SPY).
So says the BBC, that the internet is currently suffering under the largest cyber-attack yet known and that this is slowing down traffic and sites right across the internet.
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Like when you have a great Internet connection but the cloud server is down.
Now that Softbank is pulling out of these businesses to focus on the Internet, most of the proceeds from its disposals is being used to pay down debt in Ziff-Davis.
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He said 36 percent of AOL broadband customers have more than one device on the network, and when the Internet goes down, the customer usually calls the ISP, even though the problem is usually on the HAN.
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Meanwhile, the Internet is back up again in Syria after being down for more than eight hours Wednesday, according to the Renesys Corp.
Carr is most concerned about the way the Internet breaks down our capacity for reflective thought.
Although independent web-hosting companies in the United States can legally close down hate sites, there is a healthy tradition of free speech on the Internet.
" And he warned that the race is on to add more capacity, flatly stating, "if you shut down the Internet, you'd shut down the economy.
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More youngsters than ever before have internet access and the ratio of pupils to computers is coming down in both primary and secondary schools.
But when you boil it down to its elements, the Internet of Things is, today, little more than an expansion of traditional telematics, security and asset control applications.
Mubarak certainly understood the power of the Internet and mobile phones, which is why he ordered operators to shut down service in Egypt in January 2011.
Whatever you jot in them, on any device, is immediately whisked up to the Internet via iCloud, then back down again and onto every other device.
This is troubling because as more users access the Internet via mobile devices, traffic growth to Baidu sites is likely to slow down.
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Blizzard is in full damage control mode after the internet assumed it was shutting down development on a World of Starcraft mod that violated their trademark, despite using their own in-game tool set.
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That means shutting it down isn't as simple as alerting the Internet service provider where the botnet is hosted.
Their other holding, Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE), is down about 2.6% in the last three months.
That Internet medical site is finally eking out a profit, but the irrepressible Arnold, 34, has not slowed down.
Hours after Skype, the popular Internet voice calls service, went down on Wednesday for more than 20 million users, Twitter is now experiencing problems as well.
MSNBC, which is hosting the debate, has strict guidelines about Internet use of footage, and might very well take them down.
Virginia data center for their hosting, there is a strong possibility that Frankenstorm could cause another AWS outage and take down a large chunk of the internet again.
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