Coronavirus impact: ‘It’s clear we have entered recession,’ says IMF chief

WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic has driven the global economy into a downturn that will require massive funding to help developing nations, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. “It is clear that we have entered a recession” that will be worse than in 2009 following the global financial crisis, she said in an online press briefing. […]

Coronavirus: So we’re working from home. Can the internet handle it?

Derek Pando rarely had problems with his home internet service — until last week. That was when he began working from his house because of the coronavirus. Pando, 35, a tech worker in Palo Alto, California, immediately started using work applications like video conferencing that ate up a lot of data. And he shared his […]