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Augmented reality start-up Magic Leap announced layoffs last month and now Rony Abovitz, the founder and CEO, is stepping down.

The coronavirus has infected more than 5.8 million people around the world, killing at least 360,437, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

NetEase, a U.S.-listed Chinese online gaming company, confirmed on Friday it will seek a secondary listing in Hong Kong.

China on Thursday approved a controversial proposal to impose a security law for Hong Kong, reigniting concerns over the financial hub's diminishing freedoms.

Many countries are releasing GDP data for the first three months of the year — when the coronavirus started to spread globally, but that data may not be as accurate.

"Cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not an asset class," Goldman Sachs declared in a slide deck released ahead of an investor call on Wednesday.

Elon Musk runs both Tesla and SpaceX, and a new filing reveals that the companies are increasingly working together.

The order came two days after Twitter, for the first time, added warning links to two of Trump's tweets, inviting readers to "get the facts."

"The market is getting pretty far ahead of itself," PNC Financial's Amanda Agati says.

Salesforce's Service Cloud has reached the sales of the core Sales Cloud offering, but overall guidance for the next quarters was lighter than expected.

Musk earned the first portion of the stock options for keeping the company's market capitalization at $100 billion.

Trump was set to receive a briefing Thursday from Attorney General William Barr on the status of a federal investigation into the death of a black man in Minnesota whose violent arrest at the hands of a white officer has sparked calls for criminal charges.

"This is a transformational opportunity for AT&T wireless," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

Shoppers flocked to the retailer's stores to buy bulk packs of toilet paper and groceries in the early weeks of the pandemic, but traffic dropped off with stay-at-home orders.

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While apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch reported a sales decline of more than 30% during its latest quarter, its results also hinted at a rapid rebound among younger consumers as it reopens stores across the U.S.

Minnesota's governor activated the National Guard and lawmakers pleaded for peace as more unrest unfolded after the death of a black man in police custody.

The bill lets small businesses getting coronavirus aid loans use a smaller share of the money on pay and extends the time they have to use it.

ThousandEyes is the first acquisition Cisco made completely over the internet, thanks in part to its Webex video chat software.

Nordstrom's net sales fell 40% during the first quarter, the company said Thursday, but the department store chain is confident it remains in a strong financial position to work through the coronavirus pandemic, unlike some of its peers.