Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Wednesday urged local residents to wear non-medical or homemade masks during needed trips outdoors to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
The first quarter of 2020 ended with a whimper — with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, SP 500 and NASDAQ posting their worst quarter in decades — as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause uncertain
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As part of its response to the public health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission has been leaning on Europe’s telcos to share aggregate location data on their
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Update: The information that TechCrunch received ahead of this particular embargo wound up being dated. We’ve updated the post to reflect the latest. We previously noted a 32 million DAU figure,
Google today announced the second developer preview of Android 11. Like the first preview, this one, too, is only meant for developers and isn’t available as an over t
When Zapier was founded in 2011, it was a side project for three friends from Missouri who wanted to make it easier to connect any one web app to another. Nine years, millions of users and around 300
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is under pressure to lower interest rates in the next few months as the COVID-19 outbreak roiled global markets and posed downside risk to the U.S. economy, analysts said. "
While the COVID-19 outbreak poses a threat to the U.S. economic growth, the current stance of monetary policy likely will remain appropriate, U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida said Tue
A Wells Fargo logo is seen in New York City, U.S., January 10, 2017. Stephanie Keith/Reuters Wells Fargo Co will pay three billion U.S. dollars to resolve criminal and civil probes into fraudu
Esports, video games and the innovations that enable them now occupy a central space in the cultural and commercial fabric of the tech world.For the investment firm Bitkraft Esports Ventures, the surg
The U.S. economy is expected to grow at around 2 percent this year and current federal funds rate is "roughly appropriate," a senior Federal Reserve official said Tuesday. "It is my view that, based
The Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality on Friday upheld the death sentence for Sun Wenbin, who was convicted of killing a doctor in a Beijing hospital where
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced on Thursday that the United States and the Taliban have negotiated a proposal for a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan. "We've said all along
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday signaled that the central bank would hold interest rates steady for now while the risks to the U.S. economic outlook remain. "The FOMC (Federal Op