Snap shares rise 20% as coronavirus spurs use, revenue growth beats Street
Snap Inc on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue and user growth for its Snapchat app, as more people seek entertainment while they...
Amazon staff take off work to raise safety concerns in pandemic: activists
A U.S. labor and activist coalition said employees of Amazon.com Inc would take off work starting on Tuesday to draw attention to what it says...
Netflix adds 15.8 million customers during quarantine, warns boost is temporary
Netflix Inc on Tuesday reported a surge in new sign-ups as audiences stayed in their homes to help fight the novel coronavirus and binged on...
Trump draft order requires more from tech workers on H-1B visas: Bloomberg
President Donald Trump would require technology workers in the United States on H-1B visas to provide updated certifications that they are not displacing American workers,...
Ripple sues YouTube over cryptocurrency scams
Blockchain firm Ripple sued Alphabet Inc’s YouTube on Tuesday, alleging the video-sharing platform failed to protect consumers from cryptocurrency “giveaway” scams that use fake social...
U.S. scientists turn coronavirus into music
U.S. scientists at MIT have translated the novel coronavirus’ spiked protein structure into music in an effort to better understand the pathogen – and ultimately...
Speculative bet or inflation hedge? Bitcoin in the coronavirus crisis
Bitcoin has fared better than stocks but worse than gold and U.S. Treasuries during the coronavirus pandemic, with investors ascribing its performance to speculative bets...
Bluetooth phone apps for tracking COVID-19 show modest early results
When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel...
India’s Infosys suspends FY revenue forecast on coronavirus blow (April 20)
(This April 20 story corrects company name to TCS in fourth paragraph)...
Exclusive: Trump pressed to halt federal pension investments in China’s ZTE, Hikvision
Lawmakers and former officials are making a last ditch push to persuade the Trump administration to halt plans to invest billions of federal employee retirement...
