10 things in tech you need to know today

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1. Microsoft plans to skirt Apple’s App Store rules. The firm is set to release a browser-based app for the Xbox Game Pass streaming service next year.
2. Facebook removed 200 fake accounts linked to conservative youth group Turning Point USA. The fake accounts spread pro-Trump messages.
3. Coinbase is losing 5% of staff after forbidding political discussion at work. Employees had one week to decide if they wanted to take a severance package.
4. The UK says there is ‘clear evidence of collusion’ between Huawei and China. A cross-party group of MPs did not offer evidence but pointed to China’s generous subsidies to Huawei.
5. Instacart raised $200 million at a $17.7 billion valuation. Instacart’s order volumes have surged as much as 500% year on year during the pandemic.
6. European electric scooter startup Tier turned a profit in Q3. Its numbers indicate that scooternomics may not be as unprofitable as critics feared.
7. Cloud communications startup MessageBird raised $200 million at a $3 billion valuation. The firm plans to use the fresh funding in part to ramp up its international hiring.
8. Election officials are vying for a $250 million donation from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The donation is to help offset election costs.
9. The FBI warned of fake voting websites. The sites look like official voting resources but contain false or misleading information.
10. Starlink has enough satellites to launch a high-speed internet beta. Starlink’s goal is to put a constellation of satellites into orbit that can beam high-speed internet to remote parts of Earth.

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