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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on Tuesday added novel coronavirus (COVID-19) testing locations to the "Maps" apps on its devices in the United States, TechCrunch reported. What Happened The functionality is available in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, according to TechCrunch. Testing locations...

In collaboration with Discovery's Food Network Kitchen, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made its live and on-demand 2,300 cooking classes as a free service for a year starting Apr 27, TechCrunch reported. The app is available across all platforms of Amazon - Fire TV, Fire...

Some Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) manufactured vehicles will now have the ability to recognize stop signs and traffic lights after a software update is applied. What Happened Previously, the software update (2020.12.6) providing these new road sign and stop light recognition features, had...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google LLC on Monday gave further details on their joint efforts in developing a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) contact tracing tool in a telephone call with journalists, as reported by TechCrunch. What Happened The...

Several financial technology companies have won the federal approval to grant loans to small businesses eligible under the government's $2T novel coronavirus (COVID-19) relief package. What Happened PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL), Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ), and Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) all...

The Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) furlough of workers started on Friday, according to a report by TechCrunch. What Happened Those who have been with the company for less than two years and work in the delivery and sales departments are worst-affected, some of the employees told TechCrunch. The...

New York City's Department of Education has banned the use of Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ: ZM) for remote teaching amid security concerns. What Happened Due to the privacy and safety issues in the Zoom app, NYC has proposed the use of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) Teams for...

Detroit will make available Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) five-minute COVID-19 tests to first responders beginning Friday. What Happened The city of Detroit will use Abbott’s rapid coronavirus kit to test first responders who are self-isolating, but have not yet tested positive for...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed rapid testing kits that can diagnose novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outside of a laboratory setting. What Happened Brunel University London, Lancaster University, and University of Surrey scientists collaborated to develop the device that works using a...

IBM (NYSE: IBM), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Alphabet's Google and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) teamed up with White House to provide research assistance for combating the coronavirus. What Happened On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced that the federal government in alliance with...

Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ: LYFT) is implementing a host of measures to aid those affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, TechCrunch reported Sunday. What Happened In a blog post, the ride-sharing company said that government and healthcare organizations could use its on-demand services...

Retail trading platform Robinhood said early Tuesday that its platforms are live again, after its customers missed on a majority of the trading session on Monday. What Happened "Robinhood is currently back up and running," it said in a statement on Twitter. "We're testing through...

The shares of Pinterest Inc. (NYSE: PINS) tumbled in Thursday's trade as The Information reported that social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) had launched a competing app. What Happened Facebook's "New Product Experimentation" team developed the app called "Hobbi...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has acquired a security startup that provides tools of identity-driven and large scale distributed software, Scytale, TechCrunch reported.  What Happened? Scytale founded in 2017 by a team of engineers from cloud-native enterprises like...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) on Monday said that a vulnerability in its android application might have been exploited by "state-backed actors" in Iran, Israel, and Malaysia. What Happened The vulnerability made it possible for anyone to generate random phone numbers and match them to...