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EBay said it's blocking new listings for N95 and N100 masks, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have called for employees to work from home to avoid coronavirus though that's been a concern for contract workers who are paid by the hour. Now all four firms have committed to paying hourly workers.

Needham analysts lowered Facebook revenue and earnings per share estimates for the first half of the year as consumer demand falls and ad projections start to decline.

Sequoia Capital sent out a memo to founders and CEOs of its portfolio companies about the worsening economic situation on Thursday.

Dozens of Facebook groups totaling hundreds of thousands of members have become a haven for conspiracy theories, medical equipment promotion and unproven cures.

Facebook said on Friday it is closing its London offices until Monday after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Softbank's Rajeev Misra dismissed concerns about the Vision Fund as misleading and said he expects "dozens" of IPOs from the portfolio within 18 months.

Emails from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, CFO Ruth Porat, and marketing chief Lorraine Twohill show how "every" Google office is affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in some way.

Chinese gaming company Kunlun has agreed to sell Grindr, a popular gay dating app it acquired in 2016, for about $608.5 million.

Rivals to popular investing app Robinhood aren't jumping at the opportunity to celebrate the company's recent outage.

The two employees are among the more than 95,000 COVID-19 cases globally.

The closures come as San Francisco confirmed its first two cases of COVID-19 Thursday.

Microsoft's new policy will give normal pay to people who work for third companies but provide services like bus rides for Microsoft employees.

Performance technology company Hyperice announced it acquired NormaTec, makers of a popular leg recovery system used by professional athletes.

"Apps with information about current medical information need to be submitted by a recognized institution," Apple said in a screenshot seen by CNBC.

Facebook will remove political ads posted on its service if they contain misinformation related to the coronavirus, a company spokesman told CNBC on Thursday.

Health officials said they were unable to determine the source of the infections.

San Francisco, a city that's hemmed in by water on three sides, has been the scene of a multidecade battle over who gets every available square inch.

The Twitter and Square CEO's plan was to relocate to the continent for up to six months in the middle of 2020. Though he has come under fire for choosing to move so far away from his companies.

A coalition of tech firms backed the principles, which do not directly address encryption, where they've clashed with law enforcement.