Best Buy's Website Is Back On After Hours Of Outage

Best Buy Co.'s website is back on as of noon Friday after a "concentrated spike in mobile traffic" triggered issues and led the company to shut it down for several hours earlier in the day. Best Buy said it had shut the site down in order to "take proactive measures to restore full performance." Best Buy shares rose 2% in midday trading.

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