Technology

Update: COMCAST SAYS XFINITY ISSUES RESOLVED FOR ALMOST ALL CUSTOMERS

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According to DownDetector.com, and numerous twitter complaints, Comcast's internet service, Xfinity, is suffering an outage across the country. DownDetector.com shows XFinity internet being down around the United States, mostly on the east coast, but also in in large west coast cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. So far, online reports don't suggest that TV service or home phones are affected.

For some context on the unprecedented dominance of the tech sector on the overall market, here is some perspective from BofA's Savita Subramanian on October returns, when Tech continued to lead the other ten sectors, generating +7.8% on a total return basis. This translates into a whopping 75% of the S&P 500's return last month!

With the iPhone X, Apple’s re-designed anniversary iPhone, official launch today, we saw the familiar images of people lining up in front of Apple Stores around the world to be among the first ones to get their hands on the new device.

If you can't beat 'em, censor 'em... 

That seems to increasingly be the rallying cry of Silicon Valley's left-leaning (understatement, we know) social media giants after Twitter recently announced plans to ban RT and Facebook is apparently now considering the same with Breitbart.

According to a report from Business Insider, Facebook said they're "looking into" calls to cut off Breitbart advertising on their social media network after an "anti-Breitbart, online activist group Sleeping Giants" logged repeated requests demanding such actions.

The moment Apple geeks were waiting for arrived this morning with the launch of the iPhone X aroudn the world. The new phone went on sale and was greeted by huge crowds outside Apple stores in some Australian and Asian cities. What a difference a month makes when we reported in "This Is Embarrassing": 2 People Show Up For iPhone 8 Launch in China.

Fortunately for Apple, which yesterday smashed expectations and reported strong guidance, the iPhone magic appears to be back as the Wall Street Journal reports: