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Exclusive: Amazon to delay marketing event Prime Day due to coronavirus
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime Day at least until August and expects potentially a $100 million hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a dis...
Apr 03, 2020
Two U.S. state attorneys general seek info on Zoom’s privacy practices
(Reuters) - At least two U.S. state attorneys have sought information from Zoom Video Communications Inc following multiple reports that questioned the privacy and security of the videoconferencing ap...
Apr 03, 2020
Poland works on smartphone app to help stop coronavirus outbreak
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is working on a smartphone application to help trace people who have come in contact with those infected with the coronavirus and warn them about the possible risk, the Digit...
Apr 03, 2020
Europe’s north-south lockdown divide revealed by Google data
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy and Spain, the two European countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus, have enforced the most drastic lockdowns to curb the pandemic but one country, Swe...
Apr 03, 2020
SoftBank’s Son tests state of emergency appetite via Twitter poll
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Friday began polling his Twitter followers over whether a state of emergency should be declared, as the number of p...
Apr 03, 2020
Coronavirus threatens to knock South Korea off 5G leadership perch
By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is struggling to retain its lead in global next-generation 5G telecom services, as the coronavirus pandemic further cools sentiment of co...
Apr 03, 2020
Google releases location data to show if coronavirus lockdowns working in 131 countries
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday published reports for 131 countries showing whether visits to shops, parks and workplaces dropped in March, when many g...
Apr 03, 2020
Samsung Electronics shuts U.S. factory after two coronavirus cases
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it has suspended its home appliance factory in the United States after two of its workers had tested positive for coronavirus. The South Korea...
Apr 02, 2020
