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Salesforce’s Benioff pledges no ‘significant’ layoffs for 90s days

In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, outlined an 8-step plan to keep people safe, find treatments and a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, while working to find a way to get peopl

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Leafly lays off 91 employees with funding on pause

Cannabis giant Leafly cut 91 staffers this week in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The company said in a released statement that the workforce reduction allows the company to be financially sel

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Spain extends lockdown, Italy's cases fall: COVID-19 daily bulletin

TOP HEADLINES- Italy's infection rate has slowed down for the fourth consecutive day. The daily death toll also decreased from 743 to 683 victims. But the number of deaths among doctors, nurses, and

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U.S. Senate passes 2 tln USD relief package as the nation heads into COVID-19 recession,analysts say

The U.S. Senate approved a long-waited 2-trillion-dollar relief package on Wednesday night, an attempt to blunt the economic fallout of COVID-19, as some analysts expect the country is facing a rece

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Esports boom as global sporting events at a halt

Chinese players during the FIFA eNations Cup in Kent, Britain, April 14, 2019. /VCG Sports fans flock to the digital world as the "real world" sporting events have been almost entirely shut do

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases exceed 8,000 on first day of UK lockdown

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Britain reached 8,077 as of Tuesday morning, according to the lastest figure from the Department of Health and Social Care. A total of 90,436 people have

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COVID-19: UK government's new restrictions explained

03:25 The UK has joined its European neighbors in locking down society in a bid to fight off the new coronavirus, COVID-19. What's been announced? Just a week ago, the UK government ur

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock issues call for 250,000 NHS volunteers

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock./AFP Health Secretary of United Kingdom Matt Hancock says they are looking for 250,000 "NHS volunteers" to help national health service employees with "shoppin

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Ford won’t restart North American plants March 30

Ford said Tuesday won’t restart its factories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico on Monday, March 30 as the automaker had originally planned.The company, which suspended production at its North Ame

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S.Korea to double emergency corporate funding package to 80 bln USD over COVID-19 outbreak

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that his government will double the size of emergency corporate funding package to 100 trillion won (80 billion U.S. do

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With the real estate industry facing headwinds, SoftBank-backed Compass lays off 15% of staff

Compass, the real estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding, has laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created by the global respons

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Feature: California residents support "stay at home" order to stop COVID-19

California Governor Gavin Newsom's order for the state's nearly 40 million residents to "stay at home" and "shelter in place" was met with a positive response in California (CA) during its first loc

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Australian gov't orders mass closures of non-essential venues

Non-essential venues across Australia have been ordered to close from midday on Monday in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday night announced an escalatio

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New York City days away from medical supply shortage in COVID-19 crisis: mayor

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said that the city is running out of essential medical equipment for fighting the pandemic. During an interview with local news channel NBC on Sunday m

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Spotlight: U.S. entertainment industry reels from industry-wide impact of COVID-19

by Julia Pierrepont III LOS ANGELES, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic is delivering blow after blow to the beleaguered U.S. entertainment industry, as movie releases, film and TV shoots are

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Major U.S. airlines, unions insist on cash grants from Congress

VCG Chief executives of major U.S. airlines were reaching out to key members of Congress on Saturday in a last-ditch uphill effort to try to win cash grants to weather the coronavirus crisis,

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Rivian shuts down all facilities over COVID-19 pandemic concerns

Rivian, the buzzy electric vehicle startup that is backed up Amazon and Ford, is shutting down all of its facilities due to the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.Rivian employs m