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Source: Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly from China to Vietnam at the request of Apple, which is diversifying production amid US-China trade war — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc … | The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture” — In the spirit of transparency, we're sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today: … All,
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Thousands of Amazon workers in 15 countries, including call center workers, warehouse workers, and garment makers, to stage coordinated Black Friday protests — The day of action includes strikes and protests from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh to call center workers in the Philippines … | Financial Times: |
200+ Chinese apps are now blocked in India after the government banned another 43 apps on Tuesday, leaving Chinese tech companies facing huge losses — Five months after his business was banned in India, Aaron Li has resigned himself to being locked out of the country forever.
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Crunchbase: US fintech firms raised $16.9B so far in 2020, up 20% YoY; female founders run 3.8% of them but got only 0.9% of total funding — - Firms started by women got just 0.9% of total funds raised — A record $16.9 billion has been plowed into fintechs this year| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its IP Accelerator, which helps SMBs selling on Amazon obtain and protect trademarks on their intellectual property, to Europe — As we head into the biggest shopping period of the year — which this year may well have an even stronger online component than usual because of COVID-19 …
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Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December — Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing” — Sheriff's office allegedly sought 200 iPads in trade for concealed carry permits. — A grand jury in California's …
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Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed; Slack stock jumps 30%+ while Salesforce falls ~5% — A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce's largest acquisition ever — Salesforce.com Inc. is in advanced talks …
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Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4 — The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another week to resolve national security concerns before it's required to sell the viral video-sharing app.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others — AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's “most powerful” claims — Microsoft has been proudly discussing how powerful its Xbox Series X console is for months now.
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