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As Amazon prioritizes household staples and other high-demand items, some non-essential items are now showing April 21 delivery dates even with Amazon Prime — The e-commerce giant is prioritizing household staples and other high-demand items during the coronavirus outbreak.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
In memo to employees, Bezos says face mask orders for workers are unfilled due to short global supply, and that his time is now “wholly focused” on COVID-19 — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he has turned all of his attention to the impact of COVID-19, the tech giant's response … | Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwan rolls out a mobile phone-based “electronic fence” that uses location-tracking to ensure people who are quarantined stay in their homes — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, which has won global praise for its effective action against the coronavirus, is rolling out a mobile phone-based …
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Mobile operators in Italy, Germany, and Austria are now sharing anonymized aggregated data with health authorities, to map people's concentrations and movements — MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Mobile carriers are sharing data with the health authorities in Italy, Germany and Austria … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Reports: data on 538M Weibo users, including real names, site usernames, gender, location info, and 172M phone numbers, is up for sale on the dark web — Data for 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers, has been put up for sale on the dark web.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cazoo, a UK-based portal for buying used cars, raises £100M led by DMG Ventures, bringing its total raised to £180M over the last 18 months — The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has put a freeze on many in-person sales and transactions for goods and services … | Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
After banning ads for medical face masks over a week ago, ads served by Google for masks have shown alongside COVID-19 news on sites like CNN, NYT, CNBC, WaPo — New York (CNN Business)Some of the country's biggest news organizations are showing ads for face masks on their websites.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IBM, Department of Energy, White House OSTP, others launch a consortium to give COVID-19 researchers access to supercomputers, 330+ petaflops of computing power — Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will help coordinate an effort …
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| Gian Volpicelli / WIRED UK: |
How data sources like satellite images and internet traffic are helping researchers track the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks better than official government data — Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19 — Something was wrong with Malaysia's internet.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Uber and Ola to suspend ride-hailing services in Delhi till March 31 to help contain virus following government order for city lockdown — Uber and Ola have suspended all ride options in Delhi till March 31 and the Indian ride-hailing firm is restricting ride options across the country in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank plans to raise up to $41B via sale or monetization of its assets which include stakes in Alibaba and Uber; establishes up to $18B share buyback program — - The Japanese company will use $18 billion for a share buyback — SoftBank is heeding investor calls as tech valuations dive| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will temporarily reduce streaming rates for videos on its platform and on Instagram in Europe — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook said on Sunday that it would temporarily reduce streaming rates for videos on its platform and also on Instagram in Europe to help alleviate … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Disney says it has paused the rollout of Disney+ in India, which was set to launch March 29 alongside the now-delayed Indian Premier League cricket season — Disney said on Friday that it is postponing the launch of its eponymous streaming service in India, one of the largest entertainment markets …
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