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10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Hello. It's Monday.

Uber competitor DiDi's new reward system has slashed pay rates for Australian drivers, as they work punishing hours and battle it out for limited jobs One of Uber's biggest competitors in Australia, DiDi, is losing drivers after it introduced a new payment and loyalty system. Under the 'DiDi Advance' program, drivers pay higher commissions unless they complete 30 trips or more a week and meet other conditions. It also removes key features for the lowest tier and requires higher level drivers to drive consistently to maintain any unlocked rewards.

Read the leaked email a News Corp Australia employee blasted out to the entire company savaging its bushfire coverage A News Corp Australia employee accused the company of misleading and "dangerous" reporting on the bushfires in an email to all staff. Nicole Townsend, a commercial finance manager at News Corp, accused the company's outlets, including The Australian, The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun, of deliberately obfuscating the role of climate change in the bushfires.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales managed to loosen Australian purse strings, giving retail a desperately-needed shot in the arm November sales events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday managed to get Australians spending again. The month's retail figures show a big uptick in spending, outstripping previous years and filling cash registers.

Video game retailer EB Games is shutting 19 'unprofitable' stores across Australia this month The days of the massive sale, for some stores, are coming to an end. EB Games customers have received notices overnight that stores in the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, will be shutting down before the end of the month.

Here are all the companies Airbnb has acquired to help it grow into a $31 billion business Since its launch in 2008, Airbnb has gone from a startup renting air matresses to a multi-billion dollar global travel company. After a wave of lukewarm receptions for tech IPOs last year,Airbnb announced its own plans to brave the public markets in 2020.

The fugitive and former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says Hollywood has contacted him about his unbelievable escape from Japan In a new interview with CBS News, former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn described himself as a "fugitive from injustice" and said Hollywood has approached him about his unbelievable story.

Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is donating $1 million to Australian bushfire relief efforts Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced in a Saturday evening Instagram post that the tech company will donate $US1 million Australian dollars (or about $US690, 000 USD) to help Australia recover from a series of bushfires that have ravaged the country in recent weeks.

How YouTube's obsession with Marvel easter eggs has turned MCU movies into full-blown global events In 2019, Disney made up almost 40% of the US box office, with "Avengers: Endgame" becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time, according to the Associated Press.

Some of San Francisco's robot-run restaurants are failing. It could simply be that we still want to be served by humans, not machines. A trend in food automation has swept the country in recent years. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen a high concentration of robot-run restaurants, but some of them have failed.

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