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Talking Biz News Today – Oct. 22, 2015

October 22, 2015

Posted by Lauren Thomas

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

EU regulators require that Starbucks, Fiat pay back millions of euros in unpaid taxes, by Tom Fairless

Tyra Banks to seek investors for beauty startup, by Deepa Seetharaman 

Quartz

Don’t panic, but there may be a LEGO shortage coming this Christmas, by Jenny Anderson

Ferrari left more than $130 million on the table in its IPO, by Melvin Backman

Bloomberg

Climate change slams global economy in a new study from Stanford and Berkeley, by Eric Roston

Icahn wants to upend Washington with $150 million super-PAC, by Zachary R. Mider 

The Associated Press

GM overcomes huge recall costs to post healthy 3Q profit, by Tom Krisher

Faster production of jets pushes up Boeing’s profit, by Scott Mayerowitz

Reuters

Ebay quarterly revenue falls 2.4 percent, by Anya George Tharakan

Western Digital to buy SanDisk in $19 billion deal, by Devika Krishna Kumar and Abhirup Roy

News about business journalism:

WSJ stands by Theranos story

“Varney & Co.” sweeps CNBC on Tuesday

Henneberger leaving Bloomberg to become Roll Call editor

Business Insider expands its video team

CNNMoney, Quartz, TheStreet and WSJ up for best biz website

What happened when Forbes held 100 percent mobile day

This date in business journalism history:

2007: Bullish about business journalism

2007: The Naked Cowboy is business news, right?

Business journalism birthdays:

Oct. 22: Nanette Byrnes

Oct. 22: Pam Zekman

Oct. 22: Warren Strobel with Reuters

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