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Amazon has told staff whose job can be done from home that they can do so until at least October 2, pushing out the timeline on a return to work for many employees as it faces scrutiny over conditions in its warehouses.

The company’s website hit 2.54 billion visitors for the entire month of March, according to online research company Comscore. That marks a 65 percent jump from the same period last year.

Japan is now using hotels to house patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus but whose symptoms are too light to need hospitalisation, and several in the capital of Tokyo just opened on Friday feature robots to help lighten the burden on nurses.

Reddit has "fully rolled back" the Start Chatting feature from subreddits that allowed users to engage in private group chats with each other. The announcement was made almost 24 hours after launching the feature.

Jacqueline Fernandez, Manoj Bajpayee in Mrs. Serial Killer, Brie Larson in Room, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game, Michelle Obama in Becoming, Space Force from The Office’s Steve Carell and Greg Daniels — the biggest movies and series coming to Netflix India in May 2020.

Microsoft’s annual developer conference – Build - will begin on May 19 this year. The tech giant hasn’t cancelled the event completely due to the current pandemic, but has scaled it back to a virtual event.

Amazon has seen the biggest impact of the COVID-19 spread on its business internationally in India, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Brian Olsavsky has said during its first quarter earnings call.

Netflix has removed an episode of Designated Survivor from its platform in Turkey, in compliance with local law. Turkey’s censor board, the Radio and Television Supreme Council, had objected to the depiction of a fictitious Turkish president.

Amazon.com on Thursday said it could post its first quarterly loss in five years even as revenue surges because it is spending at least $4 billion in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including plans to test its workforce for COVID-19.

Jio parent Reliance Industries Limited revealed its plans to launch the JioMeet platform while announcing its quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter on Thursday evening.