U.S. Sanctions Against Chinese Companies and the Rise of Shein

Is Google the first Silicon Valley company to adopt a vaccine mandate? A new foldable phone from Oppo. Why the US might ban you from investing in DJI. Twitter gets auto captions. And a look at the up and coming Chinese ecommerce giant that you might have already heard of, but definitely need to be aware of going forward.

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Links:

• Google tells employees they’ll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules (CNBC)
• Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone (The Verge)
• Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)
• Apple and Google's mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action (TechCrunch)
• US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI (Financial Times)
• How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion (Rest of World)

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