Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Germany aims to launch Singapore-style coronavirus app in weeks
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany hopes to launch a smartphone app within weeks to help trace coronavirus infections, after a broad political consensus emerged that adopting an approach pi...
Mar 30, 2020
Facebook commits $100 million to support news media hurt by virus crisis
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Monday pledged $100 million in financing and advertising spending to support news organizations, including local publishers in the United States, reeling from pressure due ...
Mar 30, 2020
China’s BAIC, Didi plan car leasing service amid new car sales slowdown
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese automaker BAIC Group and ride-hailing service provider Didi Chuxing plan to team up with other industry players to lease BAIC's cars to customers amid concerns about ride h...
Mar 30, 2020
China’s Geely 2019 net profit drops 35% amid broader market slump
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd said on Monday lower sales drove its 2019 net profit down 35%, as China's overall auto market suffered a prolonged slump last year. China's mo...
Mar 29, 2020
UK broadband providers lift data caps during coronavirus crisis
Britain's big telecoms providers have agreed to remove all data caps on fixed-line broadband services that have become a lifeline for people isolated at home during the coronavirus crisis, the governm...
Mar 28, 2020
Exclusive: Amazon entices warehouse employees to grocery unit with higher pay
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand and a worker shortage, according to an ...
Mar 28, 2020
Apple’s factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand
By Yimou Lee, Heekyong Yang and Krishna N. Das (Reuters) - As China reopens its economy after months of lockdown, Apple Inc's iPhone factories are largely up and running. But with the coronavirus pand...
Mar 27, 2020
Microsoft gives clean chit to Israeli facial recognition startup on its work
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday a probe found that an Israeli facial recognition startup it funded is not enabling a mass surveillance program in the West Bank as reported by some media outl...
Mar 27, 2020
Google-parent Alphabet to donate $800 million in response to coronavirus crisis
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc will donate more than $800 million in funds towards producing medical supplies used to fight COVID-19, and in ad credits to government and health organizations and businesses,...
Mar 27, 2020
Apple works with White House to release ‘COVID-19’ app, website
(Reuters) - Apple Inc and the White House said on Friday that the iPhone maker worked with the Trump administration and federal agencies to release an app and website that will direct users to guidanc...
Mar 27, 2020
