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Adobe: US consumers spent $10.7B online on Cyber Monday, below expectations and down 1.4% from $10.8B in 2020, as many shoppers returned to physical stores (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)

Bitcoin mining firm Griid says it will go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022 at a valuation of around $3.3B, including debt (Frank Chaparro/The Block)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Adobe: online US consumers spent $7.1B on Cyber Monday, below expectations and down from $10.8B in 2020, as many shoppers return to physical stores (Charity L. Scott/Wall Street Journal)

Xbox Cloud Gaming update gives us a great reason to use Microsoft Edge

Halo Infinite’s controversial Battle Pass progression just got a whole lot better