Small businesses grapple with global tech outages caused by CrowdStrike

NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of a consumer insights firm couldn't pay her employees, meet a Friday deadline to sign a contract with a new firm or send critical research to a major client. A psychiatrist who runs a virtual mental health practice in Maryland saw his business limp as some of his virtual assistants and therapists couldn't make phone calls or log into their computers. And a New York City restaurant owner worried about how he would pay his vendors and employees.

Companies from airlines to hospitals are grappling with a faulty software update that sent tech chaos ...