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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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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
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 …
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| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
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 …
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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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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level — Tool allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees' activity — Microsoft has been criticised for enabling …
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| 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.| 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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| 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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| New York Times: |
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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| 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.
Tweets: @mukund, @tobi, @harleyf, and @vedicakant
| 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.
Tweets: @arielbogle, @fascinatorfun, @campuscodi, and @1br0wn
| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
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.
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