Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Facebook, Twitter, Google defend their security measures, by Barbara Ortutay and Michael Liedtke
Kushner partner all but kill plans for Fifth Ave skyscraper, by Bernard Condon and Garance Burke
Bloomberg
Microsoft’s top female engineer leaves, by Dina Bass
Bitcoin surges after world’s biggest exchange announces plans for futures, by Nick Baker and Matthew Liesing
Fortune
This analyst says Tesla could be out of cash within a year, by Lucinda Shen
What Qualcomm chips do and why Apple ditching them would be important, by Aaron Pressman
Reuters
Buy signal blares for cell-tower stocks in 2017, by Lewis Krauskopf
Game publisher EA’s holiday sales forecast misses estimates, by Aishwarya Venugopal
News about business journalism
Fortune named hottest biz magazine of 2017
Staff changes at Barron’s occurring under its new editor
Emerging markets reporter Cui leaves WSJ
Consumer Reports CEO explains why Consumerist is being shuttered
How young reporters have gotten ahead in business journalism
This date in business journalism
2012: California biz journal sold to local investors
2007: NYTimes.com expands tech coverage
