COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom
Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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Keeping our employees and partners safe during #coronavirus
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@mckaycoppins
McKay Coppins
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“Roughly 2 million tweets peddled conspiracy theories about the coronavirus over the three-week period when the outbreak began to spread outside China, according to an unreleased report from an arm of the State Department” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@danprimack
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Some unfortunate news: I will no longer be interviewing @jack at @SXSW, as Twitter has suspended all “non-critical” biz travel due to coronavirus. https://www.axios.com/...
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@thekenyeung
Ken Yeung
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With tech companies banning non-essential travel (Amazon, Twitter, etc), I'm thinking that soon SXSW will announce it'll be canceled. https://www.axios.com/...
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@kyweise
Karen Weise
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Amazon SVP @davehclark wrote in an email to his org that no group or team meetings requiring travel should be planned until at least the end of April, “by which time hopefully we have a better sense of the virus, its spread and impact.”
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@jasonthinks
Jason
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I'm glad I got to work on a fighting game and on Minecraft before the end. Please say nice things about me after I'm gone. https://twitter.com/...
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@ericnewcomer
Eric Newcomer
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Travel is going to be impeded globally so Airbnb is surely going to be harmed. 15% of Uber's gross bookings are airport trips. That's likely going to go down. And people who think US food delivery will benefit with consumers staying home — GrubHub's CEO isn't so sure https://twit…
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@kyweise
Karen Weise
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Yesterday Amazon told employees of its at largest org (worldwide ops) to stop all foreign and ~~domestic~~ travel “until further notice” because of coronavirus, according to emails I saw. Tucked a bit of news into @MikeIsaac's newsletter https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz
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“Sorry, we have not even started framing this ourselves yet,” a top tech analyst told me, re: Coronavirus impact. “Have to pass.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
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@nmoekijat
Ninik Moekijat
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Google employee has tested positive for the coronavirus. The employee was at the Zurich office. Google is restricting employee travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, South Korea, which have all seen a spike in COVID19 cases.Uber also restricted employee travel. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@balajis
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Given the complexity and physicality of Amazon's business, this could not have been an easy decision. This is probably the signal for every VC and pure software company to stop travel and go to remote work. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ ...