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A telecommunications outage by Optus leaves more than 10 million people in Australia without internet and mobile phone service for more than nine hours.
2023-11-8

The United States announces a $175 million aid package for Ukraine that includes depleted uranium ammunition for the first time, intended for use with Abrams tanks.
2023-09-6

Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for $7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry.
2020-09-21

Chinese IT company ByteDance agrees to divest from the U.S. branch of TikTok, in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to ban the app within the country. If the deal is approved, Microsoft will handle the app's personal data rather than ByteDance, averting a main source of contention with U.S. officials.
2020-08-1

The Central Bank of Russia announces it will start buying the Chinese yuan in an attempt to diversify its foreign-currency reserves away from the Euro and the U.S. dollar and to become less vulnerable to Western sanctions.
2016-07-5

Many Skype users are unable to access the service. The Microsoft-owned company acknowledges the problem.
2015-09-21

The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document.
2013-06-6

Microsoft completes its acquisition of Internet phone company Skype for US$8.5 billion.
2011-10-14

Wikimedia, the owner of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, plans to open its first non-US office in India as it seeks to take advantage of the country's open Internet culture, the group tells AFP.
2010-10-29