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Uber logo

After BigBasket, Uber will now help Flipkart in delivering essential items

Uber India has tied up with e-commerce giant Flipkart to help deliver…
Swiggy

Swiggy lands $43 Million as a part of Series I round from a group of Korean investors

Ever since India imposed a nationwide lockdown, e-commerce companies have found it…

Ecommerce companies tie up with retailers and online grocery platforms to ensure delivery of essential items

Internet companies that deal in mobility around non essential items, such as…
Tesla

Tesla sales set to plummet after record-breaking 2019

COVID-19 has totally crippled humanity, both socially and economically. The world has…

Facebook announces a $100 Million grant for newsrooms covering COVID-19 pandemic

Facebook has announced yet another financial package for COVID-19 related activities, this…

The US FDA approves Battelle’s decontamination system for N95 masks that makes them re-usable

In a rather action-packed week from the US FDA, the drug regulator…

Ola CEO forgoes annual salary, company to put in ₹20 crores (~$2.6M) to support driver partners

Ola, India’s biggest ride hailing platform, has come up with another plan…

Apple is donating 2 million N95 masks to US Hospitals in their fight against Coronavirus outbreak

In a press briefing by the US Government’s Coronavirus taskforce, Vice President…
Google

Google cancels I/O 2020 developers’ conference amid COVID-19 outbreak

While most events/conferences have announced cancellations, there still wasn’t any official news…

Ola, Uber suspend ride-sharing in India as social distancing takes priority

In a bid to promote social distancing and contain the spread of…

After Netflix, now YouTube lowers streaming quality in EU for 30 days to avoid network strain amid COVID-19 outbreak

After Netflix decided to stream all of its content on Standard Definition…

Anti-Malarial drug found to be effective in treatment of COVID-19, claim new studies

Scientists throughout the world have gone into overdrive, trying to find ways…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Tesla ‘will make ventilators if there is a shortage’, tweets Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s love for Twitter just fails to fade. The social media…

Tesla cites “conflicting guidance” from government, asks workers to come to factory despite prohibitory orders

Despite a statewide shelter in place directive, Tesla has asked its employees…

Microsoft’s Bing launches a COVID-19 real-time dashboard to track the global pandemic

In an effort to keep general populace informed of the spread of…

Apple is closing its stores in the US and elsewhere outside China till March 27 in response to COVID-19 outbreak

While we recently reported about Apple re-opening all of its branded stores…
Tesla

Coronavirus drives U.S. tech stocks into free fall, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple among worst hit

As the world continues to grapple with an increasingly spreading Coronavirus outbreak,…