Internet Services Shut Down

Koo is shutting down, co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced on Wednesday. Four years ago after it was launched as a competitor to Twitter (now known as X), Koo will cease operations after acquisition talks with "multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses" failed, according to the app's founders.

Humanitarian organisations are urging Starlink's chief Elon Musk not to shut down the satellite internet service, as doing so could ''collectively punish'' millions of Sudanese.

Ride-hailing services provider Ola has decided to shut down operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and will continue to focus on India business, its promoter ANI Technologies said on Tuesday.

Sunbird, the service provider used by Nothing Chats, has temporarily shut down its messaging platform following reports of several security issues affecting the platform. Users of the Sunbird app have received a message stating that the company would provide additional information in the future, and that access was being put on hold.

EA is delisting three legacy Battlefield games from online storefronts. Starting April 28, Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Bad Company 2 will no longer be available for purchase, as EA prepares to shut down online services for the same on December 8. Offline features such as the campaign segments in either Bad Company games will con...

Zomato denied reports that the company is shutting down Instant, its ten-minute food delivery service, and said it will rebrand the service in India. The food delivery firm said it is working on a new menu with partners and rebranding its Instant business, adding that all the firm's finishing stations remain intact, and no people were impacted by t...

Amazon Academy will be shut down in the country, the company said on Thursday, without citing a reason. The service was launched last year amid a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on an assessment, the ecommerce giant said in a statement that it had made the decision to discontinue Amazon Academy "in a phased manner to ta...

Google announced on Thursday that it would shut down Stadia, the company's three-year-old cloud gaming service. The company also said that it would refund purchases of Stadia hardware, such as controllers, as well as game content bought through its online store, and that players will have access to the service until January 18, 2023. According to W...

Fast Company on Tuesday said that it had shut down its website, after hackers managed to compromise its Apple News feed. The hackers, who broke into the firm's content publishing tools that were linked to Apple's news aggregator service, also sent "obscene and racist" notifications to Apple News users, according to the company. The company's websit...

Facebook received support from Kenyan ministers after the country’s watchdog, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) accused the service of failing to tackle hate speech and incitement on the platform ahead of the national elections and gave it 7 days to comply with rules on hate speech. Kenya’s ICT minister Joe Mucheru said th...

The government of Albania shut all online public services and government websites on Sunday after a synchronised cyberattack from outside the country, according to the Albanian National Agency for the Information Society (AKSHI). The agency shut down the website of the Prime Minister's Office and the country's Parliament. Meanwhile, the government ...

Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain on Wednesday, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news.

Surfshark on Tuesday announced that it is shutting down its VPN servers in India as a response to the government's order for VPN service providers. The company said that it operated under a strict "no log" policy.

CNN is shutting down its CNN Plus streaming service less than a month after its launch. The service launched on March 29, shortly before CNN was taken over by new corporate parents Warner Bros. Discovery.

A Russian court has slapped a series of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube videos showing military operations in Ukraine.

Koo is shutting down, co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced on Wednesday. Four years ago after it was launched as a competitor to Twitter (now known as X), Koo will cease operations after acquisition talks with "multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses" failed, according to the app's founders.

Humanitarian organisations are urging Starlink's chief Elon Musk not to shut down the satellite internet service, as doing so could ''collectively punish'' millions of Sudanese.

Ride-hailing services provider Ola has decided to shut down operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and will continue to focus on India business, its promoter ANI Technologies said on Tuesday.

Sunbird, the service provider used by Nothing Chats, has temporarily shut down its messaging platform following reports of several security issues affecting the platform. Users of the Sunbird app have received a message stating that the company would provide additional information in the future, and that access was being put on hold.

EA is delisting three legacy Battlefield games from online storefronts. Starting April 28, Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Bad Company 2 will no longer be available for purchase, as EA prepares to shut down online services for the same on December 8. Offline features such as the campaign segments in either Bad Company games will con...

Zomato denied reports that the company is shutting down Instant, its ten-minute food delivery service, and said it will rebrand the service in India. The food delivery firm said it is working on a new menu with partners and rebranding its Instant business, adding that all the firm's finishing stations remain intact, and no people were impacted by t...

Amazon Academy will be shut down in the country, the company said on Thursday, without citing a reason. The service was launched last year amid a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on an assessment, the ecommerce giant said in a statement that it had made the decision to discontinue Amazon Academy "in a phased manner to ta...

Google announced on Thursday that it would shut down Stadia, the company's three-year-old cloud gaming service. The company also said that it would refund purchases of Stadia hardware, such as controllers, as well as game content bought through its online store, and that players will have access to the service until January 18, 2023. According to W...

Fast Company on Tuesday said that it had shut down its website, after hackers managed to compromise its Apple News feed. The hackers, who broke into the firm's content publishing tools that were linked to Apple's news aggregator service, also sent "obscene and racist" notifications to Apple News users, according to the company. The company's websit...

Facebook received support from Kenyan ministers after the country’s watchdog, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) accused the service of failing to tackle hate speech and incitement on the platform ahead of the national elections and gave it 7 days to comply with rules on hate speech. Kenya’s ICT minister Joe Mucheru said th...

The government of Albania shut all online public services and government websites on Sunday after a synchronised cyberattack from outside the country, according to the Albanian National Agency for the Information Society (AKSHI). The agency shut down the website of the Prime Minister's Office and the country's Parliament. Meanwhile, the government ...

Alphabet reopened Google News in Spain on Wednesday, eight years after it shut down the service because of a Spanish rule forcing the company and other news aggregators to pay publishers for using snippets of their news.

Surfshark on Tuesday announced that it is shutting down its VPN servers in India as a response to the government's order for VPN service providers. The company said that it operated under a strict "no log" policy.

CNN is shutting down its CNN Plus streaming service less than a month after its launch. The service launched on March 29, shortly before CNN was taken over by new corporate parents Warner Bros. Discovery.

A Russian court has slapped a series of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube videos showing military operations in Ukraine.