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December 12, 2020, 7:15 PM

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Rakesh Prakash / Times of India:
Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages  —  A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant.  —  BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal:
Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year  —  Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares
Matthew Gault / VICE:
Indie game developers say Twitch's light touch with nudity in big games like Cyberpunk 2077, despite Twitch's rules against explicit content, is hypocritical  —  You can't show dicks or nipples on Twitch unless you're playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’  —  Cyberpunk 2077 is full of dicks.
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Eric Engstrom, one of the pioneers behind DirectX which helped make Windows a dominant gaming platform and paved the way for Xbox, died at 55 on December 1  —  Eric Engstrom was part of rebellious team behind technology that paved way for Xbox  —  In the early 1990s, Microsoft Corp.'s …
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Disney's stream of Disney+ announcements on Thursday finally delivered on ~$100B worth of acquisitions over 15 years of widely adored billion dollar franchises  —  Disney's big streaming event showed what Disney Plus will be  —  By the end of Disney's four-hour event …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Filing: California is seeking to join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state to request to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit  —  - California is seeking to join the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, according to a court filing the state submitted on Friday.

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