Before dawn on March 1, 2026, while most of the Gulf was asleep, a swarm of Iranian Shahed drones crossed into the United Arab Emirates. They weren't headed for a military base. They weren't aimed at a port or an airstrip. They were looking for something far more valuable — and far more vulnerable. They found it. Two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE took direct hits. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a nearby strike. Structural damage. Fires. Power knocked out. Fire suppression systems flooded the hardware with water. Two of the three availability zones in AWS's entire Middle East region went dark simultaneously — something the system was never designed to survive. Banks went offline. Payments failed. Careem, the Gulf's dominant ride-hailing and delivery platform, went down. Emirates NBD, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank — all reported disruptions. The UAE stock market halted. AWS quietly told its customers to migrate their workloads to othe...
Yes Google is going full steam ahead with display advertising. The First major step seems to be its acquisition of Teracent. Ads that are displayed on the web are categorized into two; Text Ads and Display Ads. text ads are the ones you see on most sites on the web. They are displayed beside this post also. Display ads are ads that could show banners, graphics and what not. These are used by large companies as they are good fort branding. So when an Ad is displayed a display ad can show you the store nearest to you with directions and a photo included. Currently Yahoo is the leader in dispaly ads with 14.5 percent market share in September, according to comScore. This type of Advertising says Google could be the next billion dollar business. Google did not disclose the terms of the Teracent deal An original post by Sociolatte