When Adele says jump, Spotify apparently says how high? Is Apple Watch slipping in market share? All the crypto miners who fled China have landed in Russia, Kazakhstan and… Texas? And an explanation for why buying bots will either ruin, or save your holiday gift buying.

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• Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (BBC News)
• Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023 (The Guardian)
• Wear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s Highest Quarterly Smartwatch Shipments in Q3 2021 (CounterpointResearch)
• India’s Paytm Tumbles Another 13% After First-Day IPO Flop (Boomberg)
• China’s exiled crypto machines fuel global mining boom (Financial Times)
• Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All (Bloomberg)
• Desperate Parents Turn to Shopping Bots to Hunt for Hottest Christmas Gifts (WSJ)
• Sweden's Ericsson snaps up cloud firm Vonage in $6.2 bln deal (Reuters)

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