Consumers running an up-to-date version of Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system (OS) may like to know that the software giant appears to have quietly added a new “Perform speed test” option to the ...

Microsoft is a multi-trillion-dollar company, and you’d expect a startup tech giant to build a native feature for something as basic as an internet speed test, right? Well, unfortunately, not.

The company behind two of the internet’s most widely used tools, Speedtest and Downdetector, has been sold in deal worth $1.2 billion. Ziff Davis announced that it has agreed to sell its ‘Connectivity ...

Ziff Davis sold the two sites to the consulting and IT services provider Accenture. Ziff Davis sold the two sites to the consulting and IT services provider Accenture. is a news writer who covers the ...

Global internet and network connection benchmarking firm Ookla, which operates the popular Speedtest.net broadband connection testing and Downdetector websites and apps (among other things), has been ...

What just happened? Two of the internet's most popular online services – Ookla's Speedtest and Downdetector – are being sold to IT consultant and services provider Accenture as part of a deal worth $1 ...

The next time you check your internet speed or whether your favorite site is down, another company may be profiting. On Tuesday, Ziff Davis announced that it sold its Connectivity division, which ...

Accenture is going to get a closer look into how web traffic is moving...or not moving. The company has announced plans to buy Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis as part of a package ...

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In 2005, physicists David Frame and Myles Allen were on their way to a scientific conference in Exeter, UK, and had been, in Frame’s words, “fiddling about” with a climate model to prepare for their ...

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