Issuers offering cards in overlapping categories can garner volume from hotel travelers using a variety of payment products: Chase offers Sapphire general-purpose cards; Marriott, Hyatt, and IHG hotel cards; and Southwest and United airline cards, for instance.

Akamai’s Edge DNS service was taken down by a “software configuration bug” in July and resulted in thousands of websites and apps going down, including Amazon, Costco, FedEx, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and McDonald’s. A repeat of that Akamai service failure might affect Linode’s servers used by tens of thousands of developers, especially as the two companies become a more cohesive unit.

Major US airlines, including American, Delta, Southwest and United, all posted double-digit Q1 2020 losses. For Delta and Southwest, it was the first revenue decline in roughly a decade, while American’s $2.2 billion loss was the first since 2013. Carnival Corporation, which owns the quarantined Diamond Princess and Grand Princess cruise liners, posted Q1 2020 year-over-year revenue growth of 2.48%.