Microsoft now has plans to hold a digital-only event from March 16-18. Facebook has earlier pulled out of the Game Developers Conference set to be held in San Francisco.
(Reuters)
- Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would cancel its annual developer
conference due to fears over the coronavirus
outbreak and Microsoft Corp followed suit by withdrawing from a
gaming conference scheduled for next month.
"In
place of the in-person F8 event, we're planning other ways for our
community to get together through a combo of locally hosted events,
videos and live streamed content," said Konstantinos
Papamiltiadis, Facebook's director of platform partnership.
The
conference, which attracted 5,000 people from around the world last
year, was scheduled to be held on May 5 and 6 in San Jose,
California.
Microsoft
now has plans to hold a digital-only event from March 16-18. Facebook
has earlier pulled out of the Game Developers Conference set to be
held in San Francisco.
In
California, a person was detected with coronavirus infection on
Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the United States to
15, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The
agency has warned of the possibility of a community spread of the
coronavirus in the country.
Earlier
this month, The Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual telecoms
industry gathering, was called off after a mass exodus by exhibitors
due to fears over the coronavirus outbreak.
AT&T
Inc , Verizon Communications Inc and International Business Machines
Corp had earlier withdrawn from the RSA cyber security conference,
set for Feb. 24 to 28 in San Francisco, due to coronavirus-related
concerns.
Alphabet
Inc's Google said its developer conference is still planned for May
12 to 14 as it monitors coronavirus developments.
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