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Explainer: What is contact tracing and how can it help fight the new coronavirus?
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters) - Contact tracing has been used for decades to control the spread of infectious diseases. The basic idea is simple: track down infected people, then find everyone who has be...
Apr 14, 2020
Tesla’s China car registrations surge in March as Shanghai factory back up
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc's China car registrations jumped 450% in March, month on month, data from auto consultancy LMC Automotive showed. Tesla's China registrations ...
Apr 14, 2020
Frontier Communications files for bankruptcy protection
(Reuters) - Frontier Communications Corp said on Tuesday it would file for bankruptcy protection in the United States as the high-speed internet company restructures finances to cut down its debt load...
Apr 14, 2020
Glade Brook pitches ‘extraordinary opportunity’ in tech debt amid coronavirus
By Lawrence Delevingne and Joshua Franklin BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glade Brook Capital Partners LLC, the venture capital firm led by Paul Hudson, is pitching a new fund to investors targeting the ...
Apr 14, 2020
U.S. self-driving car startup Zoox agrees to settle lawsuit with Tesla
(Reuters) - Zoox Inc said on Tuesday it had settled a lawsuit with Tesla Inc after admitting that some new hires from the electric carmaker were in possession of certain Tesla documents when they join...
Apr 14, 2020
Airbnb in advanced talks about new $1 billion loan: sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Airbnb is in advanced talks for a new $1 billion debt deal just weeks after it closed a $1 billion investment from private equity firms, according to two sources. One source famil...
Apr 14, 2020
Washington AG sues Facebook over political ads
By Katie Paul SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Washington state's attorney general filed a second lawsuit against Facebook Inc over political ads on Tuesday, saying the social media giant once again failed t...
Apr 14, 2020
Comcast’s Peacock to launch with limited original shows amid coronavirus
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - NBCUniversal's long awaited streaming service Peacock will launch free to some Comcast Corp customers on Wednesday with a limited slate of new content, as productions for it...
Apr 14, 2020
Exclusive: Stay off Zoom, Google Hangouts, Standard Chartered chief tells staff
By Anshuman Daga and Imani Moise SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard Chartered Plc is the first major global bank to tell employees not to use Zoom Video Communications Inc during the coronavirus ...
Apr 14, 2020
Explainer: What is contact tracing and how can it help fight the new coronavirus?
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters) - Contact tracing has been used for decades to control the spread of infectious diseases. The basic idea is simple: track down infected people, then find everyone who has be...
Apr 14, 2020
