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CBOE Staff Knew of Problems in Advance

Jacob Bunge and Jenny Strasburg, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 27 at 7:34 am PT

CBOE Holdings Inc. technology staff knew of software issues in the hours before the largest U.S. options exchange suffered a three-hour outage, according to people briefed on discussions among CBOE officials.

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Amazon’s Snafu Rattles Customers

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 27, 2012 at 5:35 am PT

Amazon.com Inc.’s latest technical glitch — interrupting service for Netflix Inc. and others — is causing some companies to rethink their reliance on the Seattle-based company for the bulk of their Web-computing needs.

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FreshDirect Suffers Web Outage

Dana Mattioli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 26, 2012 at 10:04 am PT

Online grocer FreshDirect’s Web site was unavailable Wednesday, an embarrassing outage over the renewal of its domain name that frustrated customers.

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Netflix Hit by Outage, Blames Amazon

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 25, 2012 at 10:26 am PT

Netflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.

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BlackBerry Services Down for Many

Lilly Vitorovich and Jessica Hodgson, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on September 21, 2012 at 3:51 am PT

Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry is experiencing service problems in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, less than a year after a network outage knocked out handsets around the world.

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GoDaddy: Service Outage Was Our Fault, Not Hacking

Devlin Barrett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 11, 2012 at 10:10 am PT

Monday’s meltdown of Web sites hosted by GoDaddy.com was due not to Anonymous-linked hackers but to failures of the company’s own systems, the company said Tuesday.