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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 … | 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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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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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 …
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Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed — 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 to buy Slack Technologies Inc. …
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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| 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).| 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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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.| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language — The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
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