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Sources: Facebook's Libra currency is preparing to launch as early as January but in an even more limited format with just one dollar-backed coin — 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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| Ars Technica: |
Best 2020 Black Friday deals on smartphones, PCs and laptops, gaming consoles, wireless headphones, wearables, smart home products, storage devices, and more — We've picked through hundreds of early deals to find the ones worth your time. — The Black Friday deals have landed.
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
UK to launch the Digital Markets Unit, a division of CMA, in April to “govern the behavior” of platforms that dominate the market, including Google and Facebook — - The U.K. government said it plans to create a Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to enforce “a new code to govern …
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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 1.2M, up 50%+ from a year ago — The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will give its US full-time frontline workers a $300 bonus and part-time staff $150 in December, totaling $500M+ for the one-time holiday payments — - Amazon said Thursday it's giving its front-line employees a one-time bonus in time for the holidays.
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
SignalFrame, which claims its tech has access to 5M cellphones to track nearby IoT devices, received a $50K US Air Force grant to explore military applications — U.S. Air Force experiments with monitoring peripherals—from autos to fitness trackers — WASHINGTON—U. S. government agencies … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Over 16 million COVID-19 patients in Brazil, including President Bolsonaro, had their info leaked on a spreadsheet uploaded to GitHub by a hospital employee — Among those affected by the leak are Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, seven ministers, and 17 provincial governors.
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| Jack Stubbs / Reuters: |
Sources: suspected North Korean hackers have targeted COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, posing as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp — LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks …
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Staff and patients at the University of Vermont Medical Center describe devastating effects of treatment and test delays after a TrickBot ransomware attack — A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments. “I have no idea what to do,” one said.
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Tehtris, a Paris-based startup that offers an XDR service that monitors IP addresses in 60 countries to stop cyber attacks, raises €20M Series A — Tehtris, a Paris, France-based provider of cybersecurity solutions, raised €20M in Series A funding.| 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.| Yiren Lu / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at Shopify and its rivalry with Amazon, both lifted by a shift to e-commerce, after Shopify launched its own Fulfillment Network in 2019 — If the key to Amazon's success has been to put the customer first, for Shopify the key has been to put the merchant first.
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