Companies of the United States

Ericsson Happy Thursday! February is drawing to a close, the weather is getting slightly warmer in parts of the country, and AT&T experienced a massive outage that affected its cellular and internet services. It was a bit of a mess. How many people were without service? When was service restored? Here’s a quick recap of what you need to know. When did the AT&T outage start? At around 4 a.m. ET on Thursday, February 22, more than 32,000 outages were reported across AT&T’s network. Once 7 a.m. rolled…

An internal memo from Microsoft confirmed that Bobby Kotick, the controversial CEO of Activision Blizzard, will leave the company on December 29. Bobby Kotick has been CEO of Activision Blizzard — the company behind popular game franchises like Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Crash Bandicoot, and Diablo — since 1991 and is one of the most derided executives in the video game industry. Workplace conditions at companies owned by Activision Blizzard were problematic during his reign, with this all coming to a head in a 2021…

If you're looking for one of the most high-end laptop deals around, Lenovo continues to knock things out of the park with a deal on the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Mobile Workstation. As with all Lenovo laptop deals, it's been given a fairly hefty estimated value price by Lenovo of $9,649 but given the spec, that could be possible here. Right now, the laptop is discounted by a huge $5,564 so it's down to $4,085. That's no impulse buy price but if you're looking for a supremely powerful laptop, it could be worth the…

The Entertainment Software Association and ReedPop confirmed that E3 2023 has been canceled following a report that broke the news. E3 2023 was supposed to take place between June 13 and June 16. Earlier today, IGN reported that two of its sources received an email from the Entertainment Software Association saying that this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo has been canceled because it “simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size,…

Sony’s PlayStation 5 may have exceeded most expectations, but the console has one glaring limitation — it only has 825GB of storage space. If you want to install all the titles that you purchase from PS5 game deals, you’ll need an internal SSD like Western Digital’s WD Black SN850. It will expand your PlayStation 5’s internal memory by 2TB for just $200, as it’s currently on sale from Best Buy with a $160 discount on its original price of $360. If you’re interested, you need to buy it now because we expect this…