Government calls in technology companies to help fight coronavirus

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Technology leaders will be asked to pledge their “data, assets and expertise” to combat the outbreak of COVID-19

The government has called the heads of major technology companies into a meeting later today to ask them for their help in fighting the spread of COVID-19, the coronavirus that broke out in Wuhan, ...

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