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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 …
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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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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
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 … | 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.| John Harris / The Guardian: |
Facebook has facilitated the formation of an estimated 300 local coronavirus support groups in the UK, whose combined membership now totals 1M+ people — As coronavirus forces communities online, support groups are realising Facebook's promise to truly connect us — About 25 years ago, “face time” was a new phrase.| 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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Facebook launches a program to partner with developers to use Messenger to support government health agencies with timely and reliable info about coronavirus — Today, we're announcing two initiatives to support government health organizations in combating the coronavirus pandemic.| 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.| 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.| 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 …
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FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Tech.eu, and Silicon Canals. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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