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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
Exclusive: France to hike crisis response by 10 billion euros to 110 billion – sources
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is set to raise the total amount of its crisis-response package by 10 billion euros ($11 billion), the second increase in days, when it updates its 2020 budget ...
Apr 14, 2020
‘Tomorrow will be a good day’: Briton, 99, raises £1.5 million for health service
LONDON (Reuters) - A 99-year-old war veteran has raised nearly 1.5 million pounds for British health workers by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday ...
Apr 14, 2020
Doctors worry as populous Indian state struggles with coronavirus tests
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Subrata Nagchoudhury NEW DELHI/KOLKATA (Reuters) - Doctors say authorities in India's West Bengal state are slowing down the detection of coronavirus cases with a cumbersome, bu...
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
Bahrain sets up coronavirus ICU in military hospital car park
DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has converted the multi-storey car park of a military hospital into a 130-bed intensive care unit for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new corona...
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
Spain split between concern and relief as coronavirus lockdown eased
By Jordi Rubio and Luis Felipe Castilleja BARCELONA (Reuters) - The construction sector across Spain and other industries in Catalonia and the Basque Country went back to work on Tuesday, after the go...
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
