Technology

CEOs of the Fortune 500, surveyed in the last two weeks of April, believe it will be years before the effects of COVID-19 are purged from the U.S. economy.

Leaders of more than two dozen of the New York City area's largest employers — including JPMorgan Chase, Ernst & Young, IBM, McKinsey & Company and Accenture — aim to hire 100,000 low-income residents and people of color by 2030 and will help prep them for tech jobs.

More employees are working from home than ever before due to the coronavirus. Security chiefs from McLaren, Revolut, and Facebook explained what they’re doing to keep their companies safe during the lockdown. Measures range from using privacy screens to extra vetting on new staff.

Major League Baseball will look to Big Tech companies like Apple and Google to help with its shortened season that is scheduled to resume on July 23. Google will provide cloud computing services that the MLB can use to track stats and shorten the time umpires need to review a contested play. Sony will offer artificial crowd noise that can be picked up by broadcasts, since all teams will play in empty stadiums.

Cathy Li and Hesham Zafar discuss how COVID-19 has affected the media industry, its response, consumer trust and the importance of innovation and adaptation.

Wearable devices for crowd control, digital casinos, and robot crew members are just a few of the interventions being pursued by ship designers.

Zoom grew into a vastly profitable business selling software to businesses that could enable a venture capital firm to seamlessly take virtual pitch meetings from around the globe or an executive to deliver an all-hands to a remote workforce. Powering British Cabinet meetings was never on the radar.

Technology was already pushing mass markets and production to become more personalized and distributed, and the novel coronavirus is accelerating the shift.

Tech execs, VCs, and analysts—from WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart to AOL cofounder Steve Case—on the pandemic’s lasting impact on how we live, work, and think.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus is forcing companies and organizations around the world to rapidly adapt and change their businesses. A recent survey conducted by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, underlines a number of key issues affecting businesses, including: Reduced access to current clients and prospective clients, A significant reduction in travel, Delaying, reducing or halting new staff hires