News sites falter as traffic spikes after Jackson's death - Business Center - PC World

Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

Between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, the availability for the news sites from ABC, CBS, the LA Times and CNN Money dropped to almost 10 percent, meaning that about nine out of 10 visitors couldn't get the sites to load...