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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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| 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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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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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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| 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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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.| 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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| 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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| Elaine Chen / Bloomberg: |
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 yearSponsor Posts
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