Amazon Inc., Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., Twitter Inc. and Pinterest Inc. will not send teams to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas as concerns grow about Omicron, the firms said on Tuesday. CES, which serves as an annual showcase of new trends and gadgets in the technology industry has attracted more than 180,000 people from around the world to a sprawling array of casinos and convention spaces in the past. Amazon and its smart-home unit Ring said they would not be onsite at next month’s event due to the “quickly shifting situation and uncertainty around the Omicron variant” of coronavirus, the firm’s spokesperson told Reuters in an email. Bloomberg News first reported that Amazon and Ring had decided against in-person presence at the show. U.S. wireless carrier and conference sponsor T-Mobile also said the vast majority of its contingent would no longer be going and its chief …
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