5 Channel Partner and MSP Updates: Monday 23 November 2020 -

Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Monday, November 23, 2020. Sip up.

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A. What’s Happening Today

1. Small Businesses & Presidential Election: Small businesses overwhelmingly believe President Trump should concede the election and the General Services Administration should give President-Elect Joe Biden full access to transition resources, according to survey results from Small Business for America's Future.

2. Compensation Inequality - Fined: DXC Technology has agreed to pay $650,000 to address compensation discrimination allegations. The allegations involved a company that pre-dates DXC's formation through M&A in 2017. Source: Virginia Business, November 20, 2020.

3. Distribution - Secure Data Management: Synnex Canada has agreed to distribute GlobeX Data's hosted secure data management and secure communications, the companies say.

4. IPO Valuation - Cloud Backup: Backblaze is seeking to hire investment banks for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2021 that could value the cloud storage and backup software provider at around $1 billion, Reuters reports.

5. Tech Employee Discrimination - Apology: IBM has apologized for firing computer pioneer Lynn Conway for being transgender. The apologize arrives 52 years after the computer giant fired Conway, Forbes reports.

6. 5G Wireless Network Services: Verizon now offers 5G wireless services in 57 U.S. cities. That figure will climb to 60 cities by the end of 2020, Verizon says.