Google's Gmail Outage Affects Corporate Users
September 14 2016 - 1:50PM
Dow Jones News
Some corporate users of Google's Gmail couldn't use the email
service for more than an hour on Wednesday because of an
unspecified technical problem, a mishap that could affect Google's
pitch to corporate customers.
Around 12 p.m. Eastern Time, Alphabet Inc.'s Google said it had
identified the cause of the outage but hadn't yet resolved it. The
outage, which only affects some corporate users of Gmail, began
shortly before 11:16 a.m. EDT, according to a Google webpage. At
12:40 p.m. EDT, the company said service had been restored for some
users and it expected "a resolution for all users in the near
future."
Some employees of Dow Jones, the News Corp unit that publishes
The Wall Street Journal, were affected by the outage. Employees of
other companies complained about the disruption to their workdays
on Twitter.
Google has recently increased efforts to sell its products to
corporate customers, including its productivity tools, like Gmail
and Google Docs, as well as its cloud-computing service.
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for additional
comment.
Write to Jack Nicas at jack.nicas@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 14, 2016 13:35 ET (17:35 GMT)
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