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Blind speed video-dating app for NYC

Blind speed video-dating app for NYC

Some New York millennials have turned to video speed dating as a way to maintain their social lives amid the stay-at-home order put in place due to the coronavirus.  The dates are coordinated through a project called “NYC Virtual Dating: Catch Feelings, Not COVID,” started earlier this month by Chelsea Mandel and Amanda Shane. The […]

Apple drops after report says iPhone launch could be delayed

Apple drops after report says iPhone launch could be delayed

A man uses his mobile phone as he walks past advertising for the new iPhones outside the Apple store in Hong Kong on October 10, 2019. Philip Fong | AFP | Getty Images Apple shares dropped late during the trading day on Wednesday after the Nikkei Asian Review reported that the company considered delaying its annual iPhone […]

We want to help small businesses pay employees

We want to help small businesses pay employees

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s operating chief, said on Tuesday that the company will do what it can to help its employees and small businesses as the coronavirus spreads and wreaks havoc on the economy.  “We’re going to keep responding to […]

Alphabet Waymo suspends driving operations in Phoenix, Detroit

Alphabet Waymo suspends driving operations in Phoenix, Detroit

Alphabet’s self-driving car business, Waymo, is suspending all driving operations in Phoenix and Detroit amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. All driving operations have been paused starting Wednesday night until April 7th. They will resume on April 8th at 5:30 am, which is when drivers normally start their morning shifts, according to internal documents viewed by […]

Amazon to hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers

Amazon to hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers

An Amazon warehouse Getty Images Amazon is hiring an additional 100,000 employees in the U.S. to meet the surge in demand from online shopping amid the coronavirus outbreak, the company said Monday.   The company is looking to add extra full-time and part-time positions for warehouse and delivery workers. Through the end of April, it will […]

Alphabet’s Verily launches a limited coronavirus screening website

Alphabet’s Verily launches a limited coronavirus screening website

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 7, 2019. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Alphabet’s Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it […]

Multilevel marketing sellers use coronavirus to sell oils

Multilevel marketing sellers use coronavirus to sell oils

Sellers of supplements and essential oils are using coronavirus claims to try to sell on Facebook. CNBC has found dozens of examples where sellers for multilevel marketing, or MLM, companies, such as doTerra and Young Living, claim on Facebook that their products can prevent consumers from getting coronavirus. Some suggest the products can give consumers […]

Everbridge up 38% this year by helping clients manage coronavirus

Everbridge up 38% this year by helping clients manage coronavirus

David Meredith, CEO, Everbridge Scott Mlyn | CNBC With tech stocks plunging alongside the broader market, software-maker Everbridge has emerged a rare profitable bet for investors. Everbridge, whose technology helps companies manage public safety emergencies like the coronavirus reached an intraday record of $116.21 as the S&P 500 sank 4.9%. Over the past three-plus weeks, […]

Google creating coronavirus site to help find testing

Google creating coronavirus site to help find testing

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks during the company’s 2017 Cloud Next event in San Francisco. Bloomberg | Getty Images Google and its parent company Alphabet are working on a website for coronavirus testing, according the internal materials viewed by CNBC and an announcement by President Donald Trump on Friday. Trump said during a press conference […]

Microsoft Build in-person events canceled

Microsoft Build in-person events canceled

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., pauses during a Bloomberg event on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said Thursday that its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, set to run from May 19-21 will […]