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So far, state reopenings have not helped stem the rise in unemployment, which is expected to show another big jump in the month of May.

The stock is up over 50% on the year, not including Thursday's after-hours move.

Zuckerberg's announcement comes as several tech companies are allowing employees to work remotely indefinitely.

Trump acknowledged during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan that a second wave of Covid-19 is "a very distinct possibility."

"Without a clear apples-to-apples comparison of the number of tests per capita, it is hard to compare disease rates across states," said Robert Bednarczyk, assistant professor of epidemiology at Emory University.

Stocks dropped as Wall Street digested a strong rally this week along with the latest weekly jobless claims data.

Evervault CEO Shane Curran says Alex Stamos' experience at Facebook meant he knew the importance of getting privacy right.

Facebook on Thursday announced that its Workplace enterprise software business has now reached 5 million paid users, up from 3 million in October.

Nearly half the restaurants and hotels surveyed by the Dubai Chamber and three-quarters of travel and tourism companies expect to go out of business in the next month alone.

Tesla HR told production employees in a memo obtained by CNBC that the company is returning to "normal operations," and it's resuming their regular attendance policy this week.

Retailers aren't the only ones struggling to pay the bills.

VCs and celebrities are betting on physical events shifting online as Covid-19 has made big gatherings impossible.

South Africa's central bank cut rates for a fourth time this year to a record low on Thursday, boosting support for an economy strangled by an eight-week-old lockdown aimed at reining in the coronavirus.

Google has pledged to stop making customized A.I software for firms who profit off fossil fuels.

AstraZeneca has agreed to initially supply at least 400 million doses of Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine and secured total manufacturing capacity to produce 1 billion doses.

Online posts have already emerged urging people to gather to protest on Thursday night.

The total, while still well above anything the nation had seen in pre-coronavirus America, represents the seventh straight week of a declining pace following the record peak of 6.9 million in late March.

Even as outbreaks in China and other countries appear to have abated, the pandemic has picked up speed in other parts of the world.

Lufthansa is in advanced talks over a 9 billion euros state bailout that would see Germany take a 20% stake in its flagship airline.

Most scientific experts believe it will take at least 12 to 18 months for a safe-to-use vaccine to be rolled out to the market.