WhatsApp services were restored nearly two hours after it went down for users across many parts of the world Tuesday, which is one of the longest outages for the messaging social media platform recently. A spokesperson for WhatsApp owner Meta said, “We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today. We’ve fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience.” […]

Asian stocks turned in a mixed performance on Tuesday, as concerns over China’s growth prospects and a new political order in the country offset hopes of a Fed pivot. The U.S. dollar stabilized at lower levels amid growing bets that a pronounced economic slowdown will push the Federal Reserve into softening its hawkish stance after a 75 basis point rate […]

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution and Sinclair Broadcast Group have set renewals for ABC affiliations across all Sinclair stations into 2026. In addition to the renewals covering more than two dozen stations, the companies said Monday they reupped three ABC affiliates served by Sinclair under joint sales agreements: WHAM in Rochester, NY; and WGTU and WGTQ in Traverse City, MI. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Julianna Margulies (The Morning Show) has signed with CAA for representation.  Margulies is a three-time Emmy winning actress, author and producer who first garnered recognition for her starring roles as ER nurse manager Carol Hathaway on NBC’s ER and attorney Alicia Florrick on CBS’s The Good Wife, for which she also served as a producer. She claimed six Emmy noms […]

Averting a threatened strike, the 40 members of the WGA East employed at The Dodo have voted unanimously to ratify a new two-year contract with Vox Media, parent company of the popular animal content site. All 40 members on Tuesday had signed a pledge to strike if a fair deal hadn’t been reached by today, when their old contract was […]

Credit card issuers saw significant erosion of their card base during the July-September quarter as the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) norms mandated deactivation of cards that have been inactive for a year. The second quarter of the current financial year saw outstanding cards-in-force decline by 2.55 million to 77.7 million. Prior to this, the industry, on an average, was […]

Legal protections that shield internet platforms from being sued for alleged harmful content posted by third parties could be affected by the Supreme Court in an upcoming hearing. The federal shield law, known as Section 230, is facing a showdown after the Supreme Court agreed this month to hear a lawsuit against Google. In that lawsuit, the Wall St. Journal […]

The population of the United States is forever shifting, with changing birth and death rates as well as immigration and migration patterns. The result is that while some parts of the country are stagnating or losing people, others are growing rapidly, a trend that is likely to continue in the coming years.    The U.S. population continues to move away from […]

There is a real concern that the extremely hot housing market has started to collapse, especially in markets where prices have surged at record paces. One of the threats is due to mortgage rates that have risen from 3% a year ago to 7% recently. Home affordability has been compromised. Several markets have home prices that rose at a hotter […]