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The fact that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee has raised questions about how much access and control Twitter Inc.’s workforce has over an individual user’s account.

Trump’s personal page was shut down for about 11 minutes Thursday evening by a customer support employee who was leaving the company. Though Twitter has controls to prevent employees from making tweets from user accounts, the incident suggests that the employee still had some access to accounts and the ability to make changes without much oversight or the need for approval.

“At a high level, this implies a level of complacency, that organizations generally are perhaps trying to convince themselves they have technology risk managed,” said Yvette Connor, chief risk officer at Focal Point Data Risk, which consults with boards and executives on technology security. “In Twitter’s case, the reputational risk that they face is that the information that’s under their care, custody and control is not really under their care, custody and control.”

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Cindy Gallop has some breaking news for advertisers: “The biggest issue facing our industry today is not diversity — it’s sexual harassment, which prevents gender equality and diversity from happening,” the diversity advocate said Friday at the 3% Conference in New York City.

During her closing keynote speech, Gallop, a consultant and founder of IfWeRanTheWorld, brought up research from The Agency Circle diversity survey in Australia this summer, which states that 42 percent of all female employees across all agencies reported they have experienced sexual harassment at some point in their advertising career. Also, nearly half (45 percent) of women said they feel vulnerable because they are women.

While this study was performed in Australia, Gallop said she’s sure the numbers are similar in the U.S. and other markets.

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(TrendHunter.com) Many retailers are now announcing their top toy picks for the holiday season, including British supermarket retailer Asda, which took a different approach to deciding which playthings should be…

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group raised its outlook for full-year revenue growth after reporting its fastest pace of sales since its record 2014 initial public offering — an indicator of strong Chinese consumer spending.

With sales growth of 61 percent booked for the September quarter, billionaire Chairman Jack Ma is now pushing deeper into shaking up China’s old-school retail sector. Alibaba, China’s biggest company, is enlisting half a million mom-and-pop shops as part of a drive to woo customers both online and in-store as it opens its wallet to boost services to merchants on its platform. That’s on top of an avowed $30 billion spending plan for everything from artificial intelligence and cloud computing to logistics.

Cloud computing revenue doubled in the September quarter, cementing its place as one of Alibaba’s fastest-growing businesses, in direct competition with Amazon.com Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. But in the long run, it’s staking the future on its bread-and-butter operation of catering to consumers.

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Happy first Friday of November! We made it through Halloween, though many of us are probably in a candy coma on a couch binge-watching “Stranger Things Season 2.”

No worries, we’ll keep this week’s news roundup short.

Over the moon

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