Secretive big data company Palantir is reportedly providing software to help the CDC track the coronavirus pandemic, even as critics slam its work with ICE (AMZN)

Economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t just hurting small business — it’s hitting some of the biggest companies in the world. Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai told his workforce in a widely cited email on .....»»

Business Insider/Jessica Tyler The coronavirus pandemic has put most of th.....»»

New data points Monday bear out that digital tools like Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s teleconferencing software and Microsoft Corp.’s collaboration offerings are seeing spikes in usage as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps workers housebound......»»

American Express will freeze hiring after equipping more than 60,000 employees to work from home in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The company will avoid layoffs this year, Chief Executive... To view the full story, click the title link......»»

The first article in a new Business Journal series on how manufacturers are putting their resources to work against the COVID-19 pandemic profiles Mona Helmy, whose plastics company has taken to making face shields for medical workers......»»

The New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered an investigation into Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) firing of a worker who organized a mass protest against the company's policy on novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. read more.....»»

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New data points bear out that digital tools like Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s teleconferencing software and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computing offering are seeing huge spikes in usage as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps workers housebound......»»

Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) workers at the company's Staten Island warehouse are planning a mass walkout on Monday to protest against what they call a lack of protection provided during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. read more.....»»

As U.S. demand for ventilators skyrockets during the coronavirus pandemic, smaller medical device makers are simplifying their designs and pushing other work aside to make more of the devices. Gavino Garay has more......»»

The company is laying off workers despite a statewide designation that counts construction as "essential" work during the coronavirus pandemic......»»

Big names like IBM, Oracle and the World Health Organization (WHO) will use blockchain technology to track data relating to the coronavirus pandemic......»»

Nestle , the world's biggest food company, said it would pay full salaries to employees affected by work stoppages for a minimum of three months, to protect them from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic......»»

Slack Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield posted a detailed account on Twitter of what the last two weeks have been like for the company as the coronavirus pandemic has upended business. Butterfield discussed the challenges of predicting how his company wil.....»»

Nestle , the world's biggest food company, said it would pay full salaries to employees affected by work stoppages for a minimum of three months, to protect them from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic......»»

Joey Hadden/Business Insider The company I work for recently went fully remote in light of the coronavirus pandemic. I worked in my tiny apartment in NYC fo.....»»

Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images Tesco, the UK's largest grocery store chain, is hiring 20,000 workers to work at its stores over the next three months.  The company said it is bringing.....»»

As rules to fight coronavirus tightened, the owner of Philadelphia’s largest dog-walking company watched all her revenue and work for 20 employees disappear in a matter of hours......»»

Microsoft and Slack are sprucing up their work-at-home tech solutions amid the coronavirus pandemic......»»

Bing Google, Facebook, and other major tech companies are reportedly in talks with the US government to aggregate people's location data to help track .....»»