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Postmates reveals plans to cover medical costs for couriers as part of COVID-19 response
Postmates said that it will be creating a fund to cover the costs for doctor appointments and medical expenses related…
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Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’
As Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering…
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President teases stimulus package to boost a US economy hit by COVID-19 fears
Just a few hours after the markets closed the books on one of its worst trading days since the dawn…
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Immutouch wristband buzzes to stop you touching your face
In the age of coronavirus, we all have to resist the urge to touch our faces. It’s how the virus…
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TechCrunch Events and coronavirus
We here at TechCrunch are watching the novel coronavirus situation closely, as most of you likely are. In addition to…
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Wait, you all haven’t been wiping down your smartphones this whole time?
A small consolation in the growing COVID-19 crisis is that some of our moderate germophobia has begun to feel like…
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European Parliament tells vulnerable staff to telework to shrink COVID-19 risk
The European Parliament has instructed vulnerable staff with a pre-existing health condition to work from home on account of increased…
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Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk
Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response the outbreak of…
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US response to the COVID-19 coronavirus moves from ‘containment’ to ‘mitigation’
In interviews across major television networks on Sunday, U.S. officials all but admitted that efforts to contain the spread of…
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China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they…
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