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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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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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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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| 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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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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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 … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
With Snapchat adding TikTok-like Spotlight, Twitter adding Snapchat-like Fleets, and Stories now ubiquitous, all social media apps are starting to look the same — Snapchat on Monday launched Spotlight, a video tab within its app that, like TikTok, distributes videos based more on how popular they are than on who created them.
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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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CoStar Group: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft together occupy around 589M square feet of US real estate, up 5x from a decade ago — Tech's soaring property demand has been mostly a boon for cities, although it has fueled some concerns over rising rents and gentrification| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Observable, which develops data visualization tools and aims to build a GitHub-style community, raises $10.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital — Creating sophisticated data visualizations may not be for everyone, but a startup called Observable is trying to make the process a bit less impenetrable.| David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: |
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