Month: October 2012

Super storm Sandy has taken out large numbers of websites as power cuts hit Lower Manhattan, news sources report. Huffington Post, Gizmodo and Buzzfeed were amongst those affected. It’s thought a battery failure at a data centre was the cause as flooding hit the building. Some sites with co-located servers reported back on-line later but […]

Some of Facebook’s employees who between them hold 225 million restricted stock units see their ‘paper’ fortune materialised tomorrow at a closing share price today of $23.23. That makes them around $5.2 Billion richer at the closing price. They have to wait until Monday the 29th of October before they cash them in and whilst it may not be quite as […]