Goldman Sachs partners with AWS to provide its market data and software tools to hedge funds and asset managers as a new service, GS Financial Cloud for Data (Hugh Son/CNBC)

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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, with improved camera and AI processing and up to 20% more performance and 30% more power efficiency over the Snapdragon 888 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

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Jana Partners urges Zendesk to abandon its plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, rather than wait for shareholder vote; Zendesk closed up 7%+ (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal)

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Microsoft shareholders approve a proposal asking the company's board to publish a workplace sexual-harassment report, in a rare win for activists (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Box reports Q3 revenue of $224M, up 14% YoY, vs. $218.5M est., and billings of $231.5M, up 25% YoY, and a net retention rate of 109%, up from 103% YoY (Jonathan Greig/ZDNet)

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Twitch unveils a new tool for streamers and moderators called Suspicious User Detection, which uses ML to detect people attempting to evade bans (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Twitch rolls out support for SharePlay on iPhones and iPads, allowing up to 32 participants to watch and move between streams together (Kris Holt/Engadget)

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HPE reports Q4 revenue of $7.35B vs estimates of $7.38B, Compute unit revenue of $3.2B, up 1.1% YoY, and Storage revenue of $1.3B, up 3% YoY (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

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Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $6.86B, up 27% YoY, subscription and support sales of $6.4B, up 25% YoY, and Slack "saw another strong quarter"; stock down 5%+ (Jeremy C. Owens/MarketWatch)

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Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to Vice Chair of the Board and co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, effective immediately (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Amazon touts "record-breaking Black Friday through Cyber Monday sales", in sharp contrast to reports of lackluster sales for the broader e-commerce industry (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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The Amazon Appstore and apps downloaded from it are broken on Android 12, despite the new OS version launching over a month ago (Lee Mathews/Liliputing)

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Twitter will remove images tweeted without consent Images or videos of private individuals posted without consent could be removed for violating rules. December 01, 2021 at 02:19AM

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Amazon announces AWS IoT TwinMaker to help developers create digital twins of real-time systems like buildings, factories, equipment, and product lines (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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Amazon unveils AWS Private 5G, a service providing hardware, software, and SIMs to help deploy private mobile networks quickly without per-device charges (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, which launched its IRON coin in April 2021, raises a $27.6M Series A led by a16z (Michael del Castillo/Forbes)

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AWS launches its ARM-based Graviton 3 processor, claiming it will be 25% faster than Graviton 2 and 3x faster for ML workloads (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

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Singapore-based YouTrip, which helps make multi-currency transactions more efficient, raises a $30M Series A led by anonymous prominent Asian family offices (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertisers (Jon Porter/The Verge)

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Melbourne-based Mr Yum, which lets diners order food and drink using QR codes, raises a $65M Series A led by Tiger Global (Dominic Powell/The Age)

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MI6 must adapt to new technology to survive, says spy chief Richard Moore says the secret service must partner with the private sector to find new technologies. November 30, 2021 at 06:09AM

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Semi-automated offsides trialled at Fifa Arab Cup and could be used at 2022 World Cup The use of technology to help officials make more accurate offside decisions will be tested at the Fifa Arab Cup, which starts on Tuesday. November 29, 2021 at 05:08PM

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Why broken African phones are shipped to Europe A lack of recycling facilities in Africa has spurred one Dutch company to import broken phones. November 30, 2021 at 05:52AM

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Mainframe Industries, which develops cloud-native MMOs, raises a $23M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $33.7M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Former Citi exec Matt Zhang announces Hivemind Capital Partners, a $1.5B VC fund to invest in blockchain startups, selects Algorand as a strategic partner (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

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Quinyx, which helps companies with gig work scheduling, raises a $50M Series C led by Battery Ventures at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $89M+ (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Twitter's new CEO has to steer a company that has underperformed the market, haltingly introduced new products, and struggled to moderate harmful content (Bloomberg)

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Endowus, a Singapore-based robo-advisor app, raises $25.6M to bring its total funding to $49M, as it looks to speed up its hiring for geographic expansion (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

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Amazon: Union election to be rerun after claims of foul play Amazon workers in the US state will get a second chance to unionise in a major blow to the online giant. November 30, 2021 at 10:20AM

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Twitter employees speculate why Jack Dorsey stepped down and what to expect from Parag Agarwal, who is among the company's most crypto-focused executives (Casey Newton/The Verge)

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Jack Dorsey: What's next for Twitter's co-founder? The last time the tech visionary left Twitter, he set up another company now worth $100bn. November 30, 2021 at 09:18AM

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Filing: HashiCorp sets an IPO range of $68-$72 per share at a $13B valuation, reveals $82.2M in revenue, up 49% YoY, and a $22M net loss in its latest quarter (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Facial recognition firm faces possible £17m privacy fine Clearview AI allegedly breached privacy rules and must now delete relevant photos from its records. November 30, 2021 at 02:30AM

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Upbound, which created the open-source multi-cloud management project Crossplane, raises a $60M Series B led by Altimeter Capital (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

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Profile of Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal, little known to the public and a Jack Dorsey confidant who has been involved in many big strategic initiatives (New York Times)

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Researchers find Google Play apps with 300K+ downloads that stole bank credentials, posing as QR and PDF scanners, exercise apps, and cryptocurrency wallets (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says the NLRB has authorized a new election for Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Yassir, an Algerian startup with 3M+ users that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, raises a $30M Series A (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

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Amazon launches AWS IoT RoboRunner to simplify building management apps for robot fleets and AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator for AWS credits and expert advice (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Citing "alleged serious breaches" of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company over £17M (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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China surveillance of journalists to use 'traffic-light' system Documents detail how one province is making a facial-recognition system to spot "people of concern". November 29, 2021 at 09:28PM

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Documents: China's Henan province is asking companies to develop a 3,000-camera surveillance system to track journalists, international students, and others (Reuters)

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Analysis: Amazon has built more than 450 warehouses in the US since the end of 2019, doubling its fulfillment capacity to over 930 facilities (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down; Twitter stock rises 10%+ (David Faber/CNBC)

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