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A regularly updated list tracking marketers’ response to coronavirus Silk Road

A regularly updated list tracking marketers’ response to coronavirus

The rapidly spreading coronavirus is causing major disruption for marketers, forcing unprecedented action, including mandating employees work from home, closing offices, stopping agency reviews and tweaking or stopping certain advertising. Below, some of the latest actions that major marketers are taking.  This will be updated as the situation develops, latest news…
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March 12, 2020
Telecom Italia says its internet traffic surged 70%+, mostly due to games such as Fortnite, after reports of lost connections during Italy’s school shutdown (Bloomberg) Fortnite

Telecom Italia says its internet traffic surged 70%+, mostly due to games such as Fortnite, after reports of lost connections during Italy’s school shutdown (Bloomberg)

March 12, 2020, 11:50 PM Top News More: About Facebook, Washington Post, CNET, Reuters, CyberScoop, Yahoo Finance, The Hill, Axios, Seeking Alpha, Associated Press, and Graphika Tweets: @benimmo, @yoyoel, @ninadschick, @benimmo, @bayouowl, @bwestbrookaz8, @ninadschick, @grahambrookie, @ngleicher, @andreabellemare, @alexstamos, @profcarroll, @clarissaward, @digiphile, @clarissaward, @markwarner, @ramcnn, @sheeraf, @davidcorndc, @donie, @alexstamos, and @blackamazon More:…
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March 12, 2020
Local tech companies’ best defense against the coronavirus — work from home Palantir

Local tech companies’ best defense against the coronavirus — work from home

On March 6, Mountain View-based Google gave employees as its Bay Area offices the option to work from home as local counties report more cases of COVID-19. Voice file photo. Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir Technologies. In droves, leading Silicon Valley-based tech companies weathering the brewing storm of the…
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March 12, 2020
‘The Batman’ Plot May Be Inspired By ‘The Long Halloween,’ Teases Star Jeffrey Wright Joker

‘The Batman’ Plot May Be Inspired By ‘The Long Halloween,’ Teases Star Jeffrey Wright

The plot of Matt Reeves’ The Batman is still fairly cloaked in mystery, but the director and stars continue to hint at what the latest Caped Crusader outing will entail. Here’s what we know: Robert Pattinson will don the cape and cowl in an adventure that takes place early on in Batman’s…
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March 12, 2020
Chief rabbis call off large prayer gatherings at Western Wall Jerusalem Controversy

Chief rabbis call off large prayer gatherings at Western Wall

Israel’s chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, issued religious edicts on Thursday instructing observant Jews to obey health officials’ instructions to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “No halachic instruction exists that would overrule the instructions of the Health Ministry,” wrote Yosef, the Sephardi chief rabbi. “The halachic…
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March 12, 2020
Latino groups to Florida: Voting materials for Spanish speakers ‘is the law’ Hurricane

Latino groups to Florida: Voting materials for Spanish speakers ‘is the law’

Civil rights advocates are reminding Spanish-speaking voters living in 32 Florida counties that they have the right to access election materials and assistance in their native language before the state's primary on March 17.Florida's secretary of state as well as officials in Manatee County, Sarasota County and 30 other Florida…
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March 12, 2020
Trump met Brazilian official with coronavirus, but says ‘not concerned’ Bolsonaro

Trump met Brazilian official with coronavirus, but says ‘not concerned’

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was not concerned about the possibility of being exposed to the coronavirus after dining last week with a Brazilian government official who has since tested positive for the disease. U.S. President Donald Trump awaits the arrival of Ireland's Prime…
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March 12, 2020