Here's why China was largely unaffected by Friday's IT outage

Kacper Pempel | REUTERS The issue traced back to a software update by Texas-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which generates more than half its revenue from the United States. The company's tech is used by many of the world's largest banks, health-care and energy companies. In this article BEIJING — While businesses in the U.S. and Europe woke up Friday to a global IT outage that disrupted airports and hotels, China went into its weekend largely unaffected. A hashtag "Thank you Microsoft, [I can] ta ...