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Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Wednesday, December 20th.

I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu has been appointed as CEO of Taubow and T-Mall Group, the company's domestic e-commerce business,

effective immediately. That's according to an exchange filing. The changeup represents the

latest leadership moves at the tech giant, which, after dominating China's e-commerce market for years, is struggling with new competition.

E-Sgooter Company Bird Global has filed for bankruptcy.

It's the latest company to go bust from a boom in

spacks or special purpose acquisition companies that took hundreds of risky

companies to the stock market in recent years. Bird, which operates in more than

350 cities, said reasons for its bankruptcy filing include

expenses related to the more than 100 lawsuits it's facing, mostly personal injury claims

involving scooter riders accidents. The company's Canadian and

European businesses aren't part of the bankruptcy and will continue operating as

normal. And Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years.

The ban is part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission,

which charged that the retailer had failed to put in place safeguards to prevent harm to consumers

after it rolled out facial recognition in hundreds of stores.

Rite Aid said in a statement it was pleased to reach an agreement with the FTC.

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