Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The Associated Press
$930 million in grants announced in Biden’s effort to expand internet access to every home in the US, by Kavish Harjai
CNN
Amazon reinstates Alabama warehouse worker and union leader weeks after her firing, by Clare Duffy
Twitter’s former CEO has a new app that looks a lot like Twitter, by Samantha Murphy Kelly
The Wall Street Journal
Gas Prices Ease for Summer Driving Season, by Benoît Morenne
HarperCollins, KKR Emerge as Bidders for Book Publisher Simon & Schuster, by Jessica Toonkel and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
CNBC
Meet GoDigital, the happiness-obsessed company that wants to buy Vice Media, by Alex Sherman
Disney finance chief Christine McCarthy to step down as Iger reshapes the company, by Alex Sherman, Mike Calia and Jacob Pramuk
Reuters
Google, one of AI’s biggest backers, warns own staff about chatbots, by Jeffrey Dastin and Anna Tong
UK clears Amazon’s $1.7 billion deal for Roomba-maker iRobot
News about business journalism:
WSJ senior reporter Bannon departing after 31 years
Bloomberg reporter Young departs after 12 years
Insider EIC Carlson: We can be the next-gen WSJ
How CNBC’s Faber breaks business news
FTAdviser reporter Matthews leaving for Ireland
Industry Dive taps Brady to serve as senior automotive editor
Oxford joins Bloomberg Industry Group as correspondent
Bloomberg hires Altstein in Israel
Hollywood Reporter appoints Katz CCO
WaPo launches ‘The Growth Guide’
