Waymo, TikTok join retreat from CES over rising COVID-19 cases
By Paresh Dave
(Reuters) -Waymo, the Alphabet Inc-owned self-driving auto-technology agency, and ByteDance’s social video app TikTok on Thursday joined the companies not attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in particular person early subsequent month attributable to rising COVID-19 infections.
Waymo said in a weblog submit that it hopes to participate practically if attainable on the Las Vegas event, which traditionally has drawn over 180,000 of us from world large to debate rising utilized sciences and social gathering by the night with enterprise contacts.
TikTok said it might keep a digital event for companions and advertisers.
Several totally different companies along with Facebook dad or mum Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter Inc, Lenovo Group, AT&T Inc and Amazon.com Inc dropped in-person attendance plans earlier this week, saying they won’t ship workers out of warning over the unfold of Omicron.
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