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The social media giant said it will begin to enforce the temporary ban on these type of ads "over the next few days."

SXSW was canceled after a string of high-profile cancellations including Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.

Amazon says it has removed 530,000 offers from the marketplace for coronavirus-based price gouging and suspended more than 2,500 seller accounts in its U.S. marketplace for violating its price-gouging policies

The big Y Combinator Demo Day, where start-ups pitch investors, was scheduled to happen in-person, as it has in the past, on March 23. Now it will be held online only.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that people are overreacting about the deadly COVID-19, while health officials across the world prepare for a possible pandemic.

The company has hired scientists and engineers to work on the effort, which sits under its top secret research and development group called Grand Challenge.

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.