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Kris Holt / Engadget: 19 mins ago

As Spotify continues to test its stories feature, it has tapped popular musicians to contribute to select Spotify-created playlists

Wolfie Zhao / The Block: 85 mins ago

Chinese court details the crypto assets seized during the PlusToken Ponzi scheme crackdown, which are worth $4.2B at today's prices

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: 2 hours ago

A look inside ByteDance's legal strategy against the US TikTok ban, which sources say included orchestrating parallel lawsuits with star creators as plaintiffs

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints

Karen Weise / New York Times:

Amazon has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, an average of 1,400 a day, bringing its global workforce to more than 1.2M, up 50%+ from a year ago

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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

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:

Sources: Facebook's Libra currency is preparing to launch as early as January but in an even more limited format with just one dollar-backed coin

Ars Technica:

Best 2020 Black Friday deals on smartphones, PCs and laptops, gaming consoles, wireless headphones, wearables, smart home products, storage devices, and more

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

Zac Bowden / Windows Central:

Sources: Microsoft aims to let developers bring Android apps to Windows 10 with little to no change in code, via a project codenamed Latte, as soon as next year

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

A threat actor is selling access to Office 365 and Microsoft accounts of hundreds of C-level execs at companies around the world, for $100 to $1,500 per account

Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:

SignalFrame, which claims its tech has access to 5M cellphones to track nearby IoT devices, received a $50K US Air Force grant to explore military applications

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

Jack Stubbs / Reuters:

Sources: suspected North Korean hackers have targeted COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, posing as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Adobe says consumers in the US spent $5.1B buying goods online on Thanksgiving, up 21.5% YoY, but falling short of Adobe's original prediction of $6B

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:

A look inside ByteDance's legal strategy against the US TikTok ban, which sources say included orchestrating parallel lawsuits with star creators as plaintiffs

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