While it's unclear what caused the apparent X outage, the platform has in recent months faced issues when internet infrastructure platform Cloudflare went down. Late last year, X was one of many websites disrupted when Cloudflare went down in two separate incidents – one on Nov. 18, 2025 and another on Dec. 5, 2025.

For a tense stretch on Friday morning, Elon Musk’s social network X simply stopped being X. Timelines froze, profiles refused to load and, for many, the app turned into a blank white screen as tens of thousands of people reported that the platform had gone dark across multiple continents.

Pennie's income-focused loan platform reaches a major milestone, delivering 350 million offers across the entire platform while maintaining its commitment to never selling customer data; the platform has funded 32 million people and holds a 4.

Just over four years ago, I wrote an article for Forbes about the rise of platform as a differentiator for venture funds. In the article, I mentioned the VC Platform Summit, then in its second year, where about 50 platform leaders came together to ...

Global-E Online (NASDAQ: GLBE) and Shopify (NASDAQ: SHOP) reported Q3 2025 earnings that pushed their cross-border e-commerce strategies in different directions. Global-E leaned into its pure-play cross-border platform while Shopify relied on its broader merchant ecosystem for international growth.

LAGOS, Nigeria, January 14, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Cardtonic has launched Pil, a B2B spend management platform developed to support reliable business payments for advertising, subscriptions, and large online transactions.

Platform sharing is all but necessary to run a successful car company in the modern world, but which automakers have done it best? Last week we asked you that exciting question and you sounded off. From the logical answers to the absurd, our readers didn't ...