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Apple launches tool to track people movement to curb virus spread
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday it has released a tool based on Apple Maps that will help governments fight the spread of coronavirus by showing the change in volume of people driving, walking o...
Apr 14, 2020
Explainer: How smartphone apps can help ‘contact trace’ the new coronavirus
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - A global race is on to develop smartphone apps and other types of mobile phone surveillance systems to track and contain the spread of the novel coronavirus....
Apr 14, 2020
Lightspeed raises over $4 billion to support entrepreneurs amid coronavirus threat
(Reuters) - Lightspeed Venture Partners said on Tuesday it raised more than $4 billion for three new funds to support early and growth stage entrepreneurs even as the coronavirus outbreak threatens th...
Apr 14, 2020
German tech startups plead for European approach to corona tracing app
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German develo...
Apr 14, 2020
AutoDesk invests in public infrastructure software firm
(Reuters) - Autodesk Inc on Tuesday said it would take a minority stake in a Texas company that makes software for planning and building infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges. San Rafael, ...
Apr 14, 2020
Cisco offers big payment deferrals until 2021 as companies seek remote-work tools
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday launched a $2.5 billion financing program that lets its customers defer 95% of payments until 2021, giving companies additio...
Apr 14, 2020
UK must stop China’s bid to remove Imagination Technologies’ tech, British lawmaker says
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government should seek every mechanism to prevent the removal of Imagination Technologies' technology base to China, including seeking a Western purchaser for the compan...
Apr 14, 2020
UK media regulator to assess ITV programme over 5G-coronavirus conspiracy comments
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator Ofcom is assessing an ITV programme after a presenter questioned why the mainstream media had slapped down a conspiracy theory linking the spread of the co...
Apr 14, 2020
Amazon fires two employees critical of warehouse working conditions
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it terminated two employees, who criticized the working conditions at the e-commerce giant's warehouses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, for "repeate...
Apr 14, 2020
G20 sets ground rules ahead of Facebook’s Libra stablecoin
By Huw Jones and Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) - The world's leading economies need to plug gaps in their rulebooks to avoid digital currencies like Facebook's planned Libra stablecoin from undermining ...
Apr 14, 2020
