This is the web version of Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. At a nearly $40 billion valuation, Zoom is now considered more valuable than General Motors ($32 billion) in public markets. Could its dominance at the moment lead to a shift in how venture capitalists invest during the pandemic? That […]

In stressful national moments like these, there are different types of fear—irrational fear based on panic, like buying vast quantities of toilet paper, and rational fear based on evidence and common sense. Your fear for your job and finances is legitimate. We are in uncharted waters here, and the effects of a coronavirus-related economic slowdown […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sparred one-on-one Sunday in a Democratic debate, held without a live audience in the shadow of a growing coronavirus pandemic. A look at how some of their claims compare with the facts: SANDERS, to Biden: “You have been on the floor of the Senate time and time again […]

Dublin, Ireland will not host its usual St. Patrick’s Day parade this year as concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus continue to weigh on people’s minds. The move comes on the heels of a similar announcement by officials in Cork, which hosts the country’s second largest gathering. Last year, an estimated 2 million […]

In January, when I interviewed Sundar Pichai, he revealed that “most” of Alphabet’s far-out R&D efforts would seek outside investors. These are the vaunted “other bets” that were the brainchildren of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The presumption was that Pichai, the professional manager the dreamer-billionaires installed to run their empire, would cast a […]