Facebook cancels developer conference over coronavirus fears
Facebook has said it will cancel its annual developer conference due to fears over the coronavirus, as growing concerns about the economic impact of the global outbreak drove Wall Street to tumble for a sixth straight day.
Facebook's F8 conference, which attracted 5,000 people from around the world last year, was scheduled to be held May 5 and 6 in San Jose, California.
Instead of the F8 event, the company will organise "a combo of locally hosted events, videos and live streamed content."
Salesforce World Tour Sydney goes digital amid coronavirus fears
Salesforce has cancelled its physical regional World Tour event for Sydney due to coronavirus concerns and has replaced it with a “reimagined” version that will be streamed completely online.
A spokesperson for the company said the “evolving situation with the coronavirus outbreak” has caused Salesforce to essentially cancel the physical event.
Coronavirus cancels Cisco Live in Melbourne
Cisco has cancelled its flagship Cisco Live conference in Melbourne due to "ongoing concerns" about the coronavirus outbreak.
Set for 3-6 March, the vendor’s annual event in Asia Pacific plays host to around 8500 attendees from across the region, spanning channel partners, customers, distributors and alliance vendors.
Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest phone show, cancelled over coronavirus fears
This year’s iteration of the world’s biggest phone show, Mobile World Congress, has been cancelled, mere weeks before it was supposed to kick off in Barcelona, Spain, on February 24.
Before the cancellation, many of the show’s exhibitors withdrew over the past week due to coronavirus fears.
(With Reuters)