Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Europe to launch coronavirus contact tracing app initiative
BERLIN (Reuters) - European scientists and technologists said on Wednesday they will launch a joint initiative to support the deployment of digital applications in the fight against coronavirus while ...
Apr 01, 2020
Tariff pain turns to gain: U.S. computer, toy stockpiles help meet virus rush
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - As the coronavirus outbreak forced classes online, Boston Public Schools ordered 20,000 laptops and had them in hand in four days - an unusually fast tur...
Apr 01, 2020
Mother of invention: the new gadgets dreamt up to fight coronavirus
By Josephine Mason, Peter Henderson and Luiza Ilie LONDON/OAKLAND/BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Driving to work at his factory to the west of London last week, designer Steve Brooks had coronavirus on his min...
Apr 01, 2020
Apple doubles China donations for COVID-19 recovery efforts
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple more than doubled its donation to China's efforts to fight COVID-19 to over 50 million yuan ($7 million), CEO Tim Cook posted on Weibo on Wednesday, weeks after the iPhone m...
Mar 31, 2020
SoftBank names Goldman alumnus Taiichi Hoshino head of investment planning dept
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker Taiichi Hoshino as head of a new investment planning department, as the group increases oversight o...
Mar 31, 2020
Marriott says 5.2 million guests exposed in new data breach
(Reuters) - Marriott International Inc said on Tuesday information of about 5.2 million hotel guests was breached, the second such incident for the hotel operator in less than two years. It said the b...
Mar 31, 2020
Xerox abandons $35 billion hostile bid for HP: sources
(Reuters) - Xerox Holdings Corp decided on Tuesday to abandon its $35 billion hostile cash-and-stock bid for HP Inc after the coronavirus-induced market turmoil put the brakes on its takeover campaign...
Mar 31, 2020
Zoom takes lead over Microsoft Teams as coronavirus keeps Americans at home
(Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications Inc's average user numbers in March were nearly three times that of its nearest rival Microsoft Corp's Teams, according to research firm Apptopia, as the cornonav...
Mar 31, 2020
Coronavirus may cut global corporate tech spending 4.1% in 2020: survey
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global companies whose revenues have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic plan to cut technology spending this year by as much as 4.1%, accordin...
Mar 31, 2020
Trump to hold call with U.S. internet, mobile phone providers
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is holding a call with seven of the biggest U.S. internet and mobile phone providers on Tuesday to talk about how the networks are hol...
Mar 31, 2020
