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Nov 26, 2007 3:33 pm US/Pacific

Heavy Online Shopping Traffic Causes Yahoo Outages

SUNNYVALE (AP) ― The online holiday shopping blitz known as "Cyber Monday" proved to be too much to handle for Internet bellwether Yahoo Inc.

The heavy traffic triggered computer outages that prevented sales from being completed at thousands of Web sites that depend on an e-commerce service offered by Sunnyvale-based Yahoo.

The trouble began around 8:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time Monday morning and continued into the early afternoon.

The problems affected more than half of the roughly 40,000 sites that subscribe to Yahoo's e-commerce service.


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