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The Star
5 days ago
- Business
- The Star
Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI, FT reports
FILE PHOTO: Microsoft logo is seen in this illustration taken February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (Reuters) -Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its high-stakes talks with OpenAI over the future of its multibillion-dollar alliance, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The tech giant has considered halting complex discussions with the ChatGPT maker if the two sides remain unable to agree on critical issues such as the size of Microsoft's future stake in OpenAI, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
New Straits Times
13-06-2025
- New Straits Times
Google says it has resolved global service outage impacting multiple platforms
SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord. "The issue with Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, Google Voice has been resolved for all affected users," the company said. "We will publish an analysis of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation." The outage disrupted services on platforms such as Spotify, Snapchat and Discord that rely on the tech giant's cloud managed services and infrastructure. Google Cloud's dashboard said engineering teams were working to resolve a few services still seeing some residual impact. The outage began around 1:50 p.m. ET and there were 14,729 reports of Google Cloud being down in the US around 2:32pm ET, according to tracking website At the peak of the disruption, there were about 46,000 outage reports on Spotify and 10,992 on Discord in the US As of 6:18pm ET, Spotify showed a little over 1,000 reports, while Discord outages had come down to 200. Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The outage might have affected a larger number of users. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)
The Star
12-06-2025
- The Star
Google Cloud, Spotify down for tens of thousands of users, Downdetector shows
FILE PHOTO: People walk next to the Google Cloud logo, during the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2025. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google Cloud and music streaming platform Spotify were down for tens of thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website There were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Google Cloud and more than 27,000 reports on Spotify around 2:26 p.m ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Google and Spotify did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)
CTV News
12-06-2025
- CTV News
Google Cloud outage hits platforms including Spotify, Discord
A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Multiple platforms including music streaming service Spotify and instant messaging platform Discord were down for tens of thousands of users on Thursday after an outage at Alphabet's Google Cloud. Google Cloud said on its status page that multiple products were experiencing varying levels of service impact. 'Our engineers are continuing to mitigate the issue and we have confirmation that the issue is recovered in some locations,' Google Cloud said. It added that it could not say when the issue would be fully resolved. There were more than 10,000 incidents of people reporting problems with Google Cloud and more than 44,000 reports on Spotify around 2:46 p.m. ETin the U.S., according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Users in the U.S. also reported more than 4,000 incidents each with Google Meet and Google search engine, while there were more than 8,000 reports on messaging platform Discord. Discord could not be immediately reached. Spotify did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)
The Star
11-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
GameStop's first-quarter revenue declines as online gaming demand rises
FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the logo and trading information for GameStop on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) -Videogame retailer GameStop reported a decline in first-quarter revenue on Tuesday as customers increasingly opted for digital downloads over purchases at its brick-and-mortar stores, sending its shares down 4.6% in after-hours trading. The Grapevine, Texas-based company, known for its rollercoaster stock performance and Reddit-fueled rally in 2021, has long struggled to adapt to the rapidly changing gaming industry as consumer preferences shift away from physical game purchases towards digital downloads, game streaming and online shopping. Despite expanding its ecommerce platform to include digital downloads and online merchandise, GameStop is yet to fully capitalize on the shift. Revenue from its hardware and accessories unit, which includes sales from new and pre-owned video games, dropped about 32% in the reported quarter. Following the closure of nearly 600 U.S. stores in 2024, the company also announced the closing of a "significant number" of additional stores this year, signaling that its retail business continued to flounder in spite of turnaround attempts. The company's efforts to reduce costs helped it report a net profit of $44.8 million for the first quarter, compared with a net loss of $32.3 million a year ago. Early in May, GameStop sold its Canadian subsidiary, Electronics Boutique Canada, which operated its Canadian stores and e-commerce business. GameStop expects the sale of its operations in France to close during fiscal year 2025. It reported an operating loss of $10.8 million in the quarter, which includes $35.5 million of impairment charges related to international restructuring efforts. GameStop revealed that it purchased 4,710 bitcoins between May 3 and June 10 for cash. It had said in March that the board had approved the addition of bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. The company's first-quarter revenue fell 17% to $732.4 million, compared with $881.8 million a year ago. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai)
