COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Norway’s government said Thursday that it was expelling 15 Russian diplomats from the country, saying they were suspected of spying while working at the Russian Embassy in Oslo. Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said the move was “an important measure to counter and reduce the scope of Russian intelligence activities in Norway, and thereby secure…
Microsoft Cloud Outage Hits Users Around the World
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe. Azure’s status page showed services were impacted in Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Only services in…
Gumshoe (1971)
Albert Finney plays the protagonist of a bingo game who, bored with his mundane life, takes out a newspaper ad offering his services as a private investigator, and Finney soon finds himself involved in a series of conspiracies and counterplots. Credit: Public Domain Movies …
US Services Industry Regains Steam; Factory Orders Accelerate
WASHINGTON—U.S. services industry activity unexpectedly picked up in November, with employment rebounding, offering more evidence of underlying momentum in the economy as it braces for an anticipated recession next year. The survey from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on Monday followed on the heels of news last Friday that the economy continued to create…
UK to Examine Cloud Services Dominated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google
LONDON—Britain said it would investigate competition in cloud services, a market dominated by the “hyperscalers” Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, which together account for around 81 percent of revenue. Communications regulator Ofcom also said on Thursday it would examine other digital markets over the next year, including messaging services such as WhatsApp, FaceTime and Zoom,…
The Impatient Patient (1942)
Telegram deliverer Daffy Duck is in a swamp, with a message for someone named Chloe, when he starts hiccupping. Unable to stop his hiccups, Daffy decides to seek medical help in an old house belonging to a Dr. Jerkyl, who advertises his services on a neon sign atop his house. Credit: Public Domain Movies –…
GM Plans 50 New Digital Features, Services by 2026: Executive
General Motors aims to turbocharge its non-vehicle revenue by introducing dozens of new fee-based digital features by 2026, including one enabling a car to predict when it will need maintenance, a top executive said on Thursday. “We have 50-some value-added products and services that we’ll be rolling out over the next 36 to 48 months,”…
UK Services Industry Sees Record Cost Inflation: CBI
LONDON—Costs are rising at the fastest rate in over 20 years for firms in Britain’s services sector, according to a business survey released on Tuesday which shows why the Bank of England may soon raise interest rates. The Confederation of British Industry said its quarterly survey of the services sector showed the quickest growth in…
Nasdaq, S&P 500 End Lower, Dragged Down by Communications Services
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower on Friday as disappointing quarterly reports from Snap Inc. and Intel Corp. put pressure on the communications and technology sectors and investors turned skittish as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell discussed stimulus tapering. The Dow managed to end the day with a record closing high for the first…
France’s Thales Partners With Google on Secure Cloud Services
PARIS—Defense company Thales and Google are partnering to offer state-vetted cloud computing services for the storage of some of France’s most sensitive data, the companies said on Wednesday. The alliance between Thales, Europe’s largest defense electronics supplier, and the Alphabet unit fulfils a May government plan under which France acknowledged U.S. technological superiority in the…
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