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Six SpaceX employees have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Monday, according to an internal company memo seen by CNBC.

Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin confirmed that two more employees in the Seattle-area have tested positive for coronavirus.

Members of the coronavirus task force are expected to hold a press briefing Monday, after the daily total new deaths in New York, the state hit hardest by the outbreak, appeared to flatten two days in a row.

In just over a week, The Jacob K. Javits Center has been transformed into a field hospital operated by the U.S. National Guard and has started to take in coronavirus patients to help alleviate the stress on existing hospital systems.

NBCUniversal says it's offering resources like more access to talent and remote production to its advertising partners as it also reduces commercial time.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to seek further support for the collection and use of space resources.

A broad coalition of mortgage and finance industry leaders sent a plea to federal regulators, asking for desperately needed cash to keep the mortgage system running. This, as requests from borrowers for the federal mortgage forbearance program are flooding in at an alarming rate.

"Last week, all of my patients were extremely emotional," Maeleigh Soper said. "I sat there and cried with one of them because she's very young and can't have her mom there, and it's so sad and terrifying."

Facebook is developing new tools that use aggregated, anonymized information about users' location to help public health officials figure out who's adhering to the social distancing guidelines.

The WHO's director-general said about 20 institutions and companies "are racing to develop a vaccine."

Quibi has some great actors and actresses and fun episodic TV shows but they're too short at a time when we're all home with big TVs and access to Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and more anyway.

Some children have been hospitalized or worse after becoming infected with the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. At least three children have died.

Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO's executive director for emergencies program, said more people may be "infected unknowingly."

"If we need to do temporary burials to be able to tide this over to pass the crisis and then work with each family on their appropriate arrangements, we have the ability to do that," de Blasio said.

In an email he sent to employees this morning, Arvind Krishna said he will focus on artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud as key technologies for the future. He also made the case that the company's legacy of providing core technology makes it indispensable during high-pressure times like today's.

Two new buttons provide quick search for restaurants that provide takeout and delivery on iPhone and Android.

On Arvind Krishna's first day as CEO of IBM, he think the company's customers will go deeper into cloud services because of coronavirus.

Newark and New York's JFK International Airport had been among the busiest airports in the country.