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Friday, June 19, 2020

Shopify, BlackBerry developing COVID-19 tracing app

As COVID-19 cases hit 100,000 in Canada, Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) announced a coronavirus contact tracing app – developed with provincial and federal governments – expected to launch in July.
The app, called COVID Alert, will use Bluetooth connections to swap randomly generated codes with users in a geographic vicinity.
It may pay off for Canada. The U.K. yesterday switched to the Apple and Google model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app after a locally developed system did not work well on the iPhone.

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