Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Apple to close retail stores outside Greater China until March 27
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said late on Friday it will close all its retail stores outside Greater China until March 27, to minimize risk of coronavirus transmission. "We will be closing all of our retail ...
Mar 14, 2020
Google’s Verily in early stages of developing a coronavirus tool
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google said a life sciences division, Verily, is in the early stages of developing a tool to help triage Americans who may need testing for the coronavirus. "Verily is in the ea...
Mar 13, 2020
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates has stepped down from the company's board to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health, education and tackling climate...
Mar 13, 2020
From $1 billion Musk trial to jury duty being put on hold, coronavirus hits U.S. courts
By Tom Hals and Caroline Spiezio WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has begun to impact the U.S. court system, halting civil and criminal jury trials in high-profile venues such as M...
Mar 13, 2020
Google to develop website to help with coronavirus test: Trump
(Reuters) - Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc rose more than 9% after U.S. President Donald Trump said the search giant would create a website to help determine whether individuals need a coronavir...
Mar 13, 2020
Teleconference apps and new tech surge in demand amid coronavirus outbreak
By Akanksha Rana and Arriana McLymore (Reuters) - Global downloads of business apps including Tencent Conference, WeChat Work, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack have risen nearly five fold since the sta...
Mar 13, 2020
Activist fund Elliott backs SoftBank’s $4.8 billion buyback plan
(Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott Management said on Friday it supports SoftBank Group Corp's latest move to buy back up to $4.8 billion of its shares. Elliott also said SoftBank would have opport...
Mar 13, 2020
Apple shifts annual developers conference to online-only format
(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Friday called off the in-person portion of its annual developers conference scheduled to be held in San Jose and said it would run the program entirely online in June because ...
Mar 13, 2020
GrubHub suspends commissions from virus-hit U.S. restaurants
(Reuters) - GrubHub Inc said on Friday it would temporarily suspend collection of up to $100 million in commissions from independent U.S. restaurants hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The company said ...
Mar 13, 2020
China’s ZTE subject to new U.S. bribery investigation, NBC News says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese telecoms company ZTE is the subject of a new bribery investigation at the U.S. Justice Department, centered on suspected bribes paid to foreign officials to gain advanta...
Mar 13, 2020
