American hotel chain, Marriott International has reopened all of its hotels in China and the group said that it has seen a recovery in business travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported on Tuesday.

The world's third largest hotel chain has 350 outlets across China, reports the BBC.

Marriott gave an upbeat statement on Monday about its business in China as it emerges from coronavirus lockdowns.

Last week it said the financial impact from the pandemic has been more severe for the hotel chain than 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis combined.

In the statement, Marriott Chief Executive Arne Sorenson said the occupancy rates at its Chinese hotels had been as low as 7 per cent in late January when China was at its peak of cases.

But that occupancy rate is now at 40 per cent, according to the company.

"It's not just leisure travel growing, but it is business travel. Chinese are flying again," the BBC quoted Sorenson as saying.

However, he warned that occupancy might not recover to pre-coronavirus levels for several years.

The hotel group, which owns about 30 brands including Ritz-Carlton, St Regis and Sheraton, has extended furloughs for employees and reduced working weeks until early October.

"Given the company's expectation that prior levels of business will not return until beyond 2021, the company anticipates a significant number of above-property position eliminations later this year," it said in a statement.

Rival Hilton reopened all of its 255 hotels in China two weeks ago and introduced a CleanStay initiative to protect employees and guests, the BBC reported.

The coronavirus pandemic originated in the city of Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, last December.

As of Tuesday, China registered 84,154 COVID-19 cases, with 4,638 deaths.

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YouTube has started rolling out its video chapters features with the aim of helping its users on desktop, mobile or tablets to focus on the portions that matter the most to them.

The feature will also allow creators to better organise their content. It is expected to be particularly of great help for long-form videos.

With such videos organised by chapters, just like a book, users will be able to skip some portions that they may find irrelevant.

"The Video Chapters feature is officially here," the YouTube Twitter handle for creators said on Thursday.

"When Chapters are enabled, viewers watch more of the video, and come back more often on average," it added.

The video chapters feature was soft launched by YouTube in April, The Verge reported.

YouTube users on desktop would know if the video they are watching has chapters when they hover the mouse over the bar that indicates video progress.

This bar will have breaks to indicate the end of one chapter and beginning of another. Hovering over these little breaks will also tell you the name of the chapters.

The same applies to users of other mobile devices as well. But YouTube's phone app will trigger a haptic buzz the moment a user reaches the next chapter.

On other mobile devices, such as tablets, where haptic feedback is not available, when a user lifts his/her finger off the screen, the video progress bar will automatically snap to the beginning of a new chapter, said the report.

Antutu has become one of the most popular benchmarking apps for Android because it offers people an easy way to compare their devices with others. It has received millions of downloads from the Google Play Store and has received a high rating all the time.
However, all of this is a thing of the past, as Google has now removed all three Antutu benchmarking apps from the Play Store to take action against the notorious developer Cheetah Mobile.

Google has taken action against Cheetah Mobile since one of its applications, called Clean Master, launched misleading ads in 2014. These pop-up ads warn users that their device has been infected with viruses and cause them to install Clean Master on their phones.

A few months later, the developer asked users to replace Google Chrome on their devices with Cheetah Mobile's internet browser. This eventually led Google to take action against the notorious developer.
In 2018, Cheetah Mobile was involved in another click fraud that resulted in Google removing two of its applications from the Play Store. Currently, Google has banned over 600 apps from Cheetah Mobile and other developers that have violated the company's ad policies, including the Antutu apps mentioned above.
In his defense, Antutu has released a statement alleging that Cheetah Mobile is only an investor in Antutu and that Antutu still holds a significant number of shares. They also claim that they have never advertised Cheetah Mobile software and have never given them access to their Google Play account.

They hope that "Google can better investigate the situation and resolve this misunderstanding as soon as possible."

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