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November 26, 2020, 10:55 AM

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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 …
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,
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.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing”  —  Sheriff's office allegedly sought 200 iPads in trade for concealed carry permits.  —  A grand jury in California's …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed; Slack stock jumps 30%+ while Salesforce falls ~5%  —  A deal would likely value Slack at more than $17 billion and mark Salesforce's largest acquisition ever  —  Salesforce.com Inc. is in advanced talks …
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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others  —  AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours  —  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
Tom Warren / The Verge:

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