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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints — Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency company, has faced many internal complaints about discriminatory treatment.
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| Katie Abel / Footwear News: |
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46 — Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died. He was 46.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, an average of 1,400 a day, bringing its global workforce to more than 1.2 million, up 50%+ YoY — The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook led Libra currency could launch as early as January, but in a limited format with a single coin, backed one-for-one by the US dollar — Long-awaited project to arrive as soon as January, with just one dollar-backed coin — The long-awaited Facebook-led digital currency Libra …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A threat actor is selling access to Office 365 and Microsoft accounts of hundreds of C-level execs at companies around the world, for $100 to $1,500 per account — Access is sold for $100 to $1500 per account, depending on the company size and exec role. — A threat actor is currently … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft aims to let developers bring Android apps to Windows 10 with little to no change in code, via a project codenamed Latte, as soon as next year — Microsoft is working on a software solution that would allow app developers to bring their Android apps to Windows 10 with little …
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
A look inside ByteDance's legal strategy against the US TikTok ban, which sources say included orchestrating parallel lawsuits with star creators as plaintiffs — A lawsuit looked like a grass-roots effort, but was orchestrated by TikTok and parent company ByteDance, according to people familiar with the effort
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| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
Indian developers are using India's TikTok ban to experiment with new apps and potentially to take back control over India's digital economy from foreign rivals — In the wake of India's ban on Chinese apps, local developers are scrambling to come up with the next best thing.
Tweets: @venkatananth
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: 55% of US adults are worried about government agencies tracking them and 77% believe the government should get a warrant to buy detailed location data — Quarter of poll respondents say they will change behavior to avoid surveillance — A new survey found widespread concern among Americans …
Tweets: @ronwyden
| Mallory Hackett / MobiHealthNews: |
Well Health, which lets health care organizations connect with patients over SMS, email, phone or live chat, raises $45M Series C, bringing total raised to $75M — With these funds, Well Health has now raised $75 million since its founding in 2015. — This week, the patient communication hub …
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| Arijit Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
FC Kohli, the founding CEO of IT services giant Tata Consultancy Services and who is referred to as the “father of India's IT industry”, died at 96 on Thursday — - 'Father of India's IT industry,' Kohli led TCS for 3 decades — Kohli was the first CEO at Asia's biggest IT services firm
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| David Manners / Electronics Weekly: |
Australian startup Morse Micro, which is developing ultra low-power, long-range Wi-Fi HaLow chips for IoT environments, extends its Series A by $13M to $30M — Morse Micro, the Australian IoT WiFi start-up, has secured $13 million (AU $18) in additional funding.
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