Facebook canceled an annual San Francisco conference because of coronavirus concerns
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- Facebook is canceling an annual marketing conference held in San Francisco out of coronavirus concerns.
- The cancellation comes as the virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 60,000 people, with 15 confirmed cases in the US.
- Facebook's canceled Global Marketing Summit also follows Barcelona's canceled Mobile World Summit, a major tech conference that was slated for late-February.
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Facebook is canceling an annual conference held in San Francisco out of health concerns regarding the coronavirus.
"Out of an abundance of caution, we canceled our Global Marketing Summit due to evolving public health risks related to coronavirus," Facebook spokesman Anthony Harrison said in a statement.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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