Coronavirus stops MWC tech show
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The mobile industry’s biggest annual event is called off over fears of attendees spreading the infection. But Samsung, which held its own launch event this week, revealed a new attempt at a phone with a folding screen. Plus, we visit Startup Grind Global to discover the latest ideas looking for Silicon Valley investors’ money. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Chris Fox, and special guest Rachael Myrow, senior tech editor at Californian broadcaster KQED. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: An Asian worker wearing a face-mask stands outside the venue for Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona after the fair was cancelled, Credit: David Zorrakino/ Europa Press via Getty Images)
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| 0:56.3 | We're looking at the shock cancellation of Mobile World Congress, the biggest event in the |
| 1:01.0 | mobile industry's calendar, and we'll ask whether social media played a role by spreading |
| 1:05.9 | panic about the coronavirus. We attend Samsung's big show here in San Francisco where a rather cute folding phone was unveiled. |
| 1:14.6 | And we're at a startup festival meeting eager young entrepreneurs from around the world. |
| 1:19.7 | My special guest is KQED's very own senior tech editor, Rachel Marrow. |
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