Amazon opens online drugstore

Amazon has launched its own drugstore that will deliver prescription medications. Jonathan Shieber and Ingrid Lunden from TechCrunch reported: A little over two years after its $753 million acquisition of the prescription medicine delivery service PillPack, Amazon has finally launched Amazon Pharmacy, its online and mobile prescription medication ordering and fulfillment service. Using a secure […]

Silicon Valley Biz Journal seeks a managing editor

The Silicon Valley Business Journal is looking for a Managing Editor to serve as the newsroom’s chief operating officer. While the ME oversees and ensures the smooth flow of content from conception to publishing on all platforms, the ideal candidate is particularly adept at and has a particular passion for digital excellence. As the newsroom’s […]

Talking Biz News Today — Nov. 18, 2020

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories: Associated Press FAA poised to clear Boeing 737 Max to fly again, by David Koenig, Tom Krisher Amazon opens online pharmacy, shaking up another industry, by Joseph Pisani, Tom Murphy CNN The global economic bailout is running at $19.5 trillion. It will go higher, by Hanna Ziady Conan […]

Forbes reporter Solender moves to new beat

Forbes reporter Andrew Solender, who had been covering politics, is now covering the new administration, the transition and Congress. He had been covering the 2020 election. Solender previously held the post of editor-in-chief at The Vassar Insider. Before that, he was a political correspondent for Luminary Media. In addition, he has also served as a contributor […]

Crain’s New York Business seeks a data editor

Crain’s New York Business is seeking a data editor to dig deep into available business data to compile many of our high-profile research projects and lists. The data editor is the point person for data projects across all platforms, including online, email, print and social. The New York data editor will be part of a […]

Bloomberg reporter Ahmed moving to Asia finance team

Candice Zachariahs, managing editor of Asia finance and investing, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We are very excited to welcome Nabila Ahmed to the Asia finance team. Nabila will cover banking and investing in Australia and be based out of Sydney. She returns to Australia after a six-year stint in New York, most […]

Ang joins The Fuller Project as Asia contributing editor

Katerina Ang will join The Fuller Project as the Asia contributing editor, working on stories about political, economic and civil rights for women in Asia and the Pacific. The Fuller Project is award-winning global nonprofit newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting on women, to raise awareness, expose injustice and spur accountability. Previously, Ang was the global […]

Quartz launches new video show “Make Business Better”

Financial news site Quartz launched Tuesday a weekly video show “Make Business Better” hosted by Quartz CEO Zach Seward. The show will appear on Quartz’s LinkedIn page each Tuesday at 11 a.m. and will be a 15-minute interview with leaders to talk about an initiative in which they are actively working to make business better. […]

Dow Jones strikes deal for news content on FIS terminals

Dow Jones & Co. has struck a deal to make its news content available through FIS’s MarketMap terminal. Users will have access to daily content from Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and WSJ Pro. MarketMap users will also have access to NewsPlus, Dow Jones’s real-time news dashboard. NewsPlus displays real-time streaming […]

Business Insider hires Perlberg as media correspondent

Business Insider has hired Steven Perlberg as a media correspondent. Perlberg is currently a freelance reporter based in Berlin writing about media, politics, business, culture, and other things. He previously worked for Business Insider, BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal. At the Journal, he covered digital media, marketing and advertising. At BuzzFeed, he covered the […]