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Airbnb offering full refund as the lockdown continues to disrupt the travel plans

Full refund if your check-in is planned between March 14 to April 14.

Airbnb – a San-Francisco based company that offers homestays or tourism experiences primarily – has announced a full refund policy for every reservation around the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.…

Google Chicago Office
Google

Google asks staff in North America to work from home

Google will provide paid sick leaves for workers around the world!

Google asks all of its North-American employees to work from home (WFH), due to COVID-19 – coronavirus – outbreak, if their workload and situation allow it. The company extended the…

Business

Facebook sues Namecheap for registering deceptive domains

Such domains are used for phishing attacks.

Facebook, the social network company, has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, and WhoisGuard, Namecheap’s proxy service, in Arizona for alleged cybersquatting and registering deceiving domain names…

Amazon Office Staff Employees
Amazon

Amazon employee tests positive for coronavirus – in Seattle and Italy

Seattle has become a ghost town!

Amazon has confirmed an employee in Seattle is tested a positive coronavirus. “The employee went home feeling unwell on Tuesday, February 25 and has not entered Amazon offices since that…

Apple CEO Tim Cook at Foxconn
Apple

Foxconn expects to bring workers back to work by the end of March

Foxconn - the factory of the world - manufactures iPhone, PlayStation, Xbox, and many more gadgets.

Foxconn is bringing its workers back to work to resume the normal production in China by the end of March. More than half of the workforce has already started working…

Autonomous car developed by Pony.ai
Business

Toyota invests $400 million in Pony.ai for Level 4 autonomous cars

Pony.ai is now a $3 billion company.

Pony.ai, an autonomous driving startup based in China, has received a total of $462 million in the latest funding round, led by Toyota Motor Corporation. The largest Japanese automaker has…

Credit Karma logo on glass. Intuit is acquiring Credit Karma.
Business

Intuit is buying Credit Karma for $7.1 billion, its biggest acquisition

The deal will mark its largest acquisition by Intuit.

Intuit, a US-based leading financial software company, is intending to acquire Credit Karma — another leading multinational personal financing company for $7.1 billion in cash and stock. The deal would…

Crew Dragon SpaceX
Business

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to raise $250 million in funding for Crew Dragon, Starship and Starlink

It will make SpaceX a $36 billion company.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking $250 million at $220 per share in new fundings, according to a report by CNBC . The funding will boost the worth of the company…

Snap Inc Snapchat logo on yellow.
Business

Snap announces the third cohort of Yellow Accelerator Program

Yellow, a program for entrepreneurs working on content creation and tech.

Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, has launched the third cohort of its Yellow accelerator program. The program, debuted in 2018, was started to bring in creative minds and…

One of the major public companies, Twitter, acquired Chroma Labs.
Twitter

Chroma Labs has officially joined Twitter. Is Twitter coming up with its own Stories?

Chroma Labs started the company in 2018, but quickly caught the eye of social-network companies.

Chroma Labs has officially announced that the company is shutting down its business immediately, and the team is joining Twitter. Kayvon Beykpour, the product lead at Twitter, confirmed the news…