(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would drop its yearly engineer meeting because of fears over the coronavirus episode and Microsoft Corp went with the same pattern by pulling back from a gaming gathering planned for one month from now.
"Instead of the in-person F8 occasion, we're arranging different ways for our locale to get together through a combo of privately facilitated occasions, recordings and live gushed content," said Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook's executive of stage organization.
The gathering, which pulled in 5,000 individuals from around the globe a year ago, was planned to be hung on May 5 and 6 in San Jose, California.
Microsoft now has plans to hold a computerized just occasion from March 16-18. Facebook has prior pulled out of the Game Developers Conference set to be held in San Francisco.
In California, an individual was distinguished with coronavirus contamination on Wednesday, getting the all out number of cases the United States to 15, as indicated by the U.S. Habitats for Disease Control and Prevention.
The office has cautioned of the chance of a network spread of the coronavirus in the nation. Prior this month, The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the yearly telecoms industry gathering, was canceled after a mass migration by exhibitors because of fears over the coronavirus episode.
AT&T Inc , Verizon Communications Inc and International Business Machines Corp had before pulled back from the RSA digital security gathering, set for Feb. 24 to 28 in San Francisco, due to coronavirus-related concerns...READ MORE
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