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Talking Biz News — Oct. 7, 2014

October 7, 2014

Posted by Meg Garner

Some of Tuesday’s top stories:

The New York Times

Breaking up is the new thing to do, by David Gelles

Turner Broadcasting, home of CNN, TBS and TNT, will cut 1,475 jobs, by Emily Steel

Microsoft and other firms pledge to protect student data, by Natasha Singer

The Wall Street Journal

Germany to tell G20 no eurozone deflation risk, by Andrea Thomas

Hilton to sell Waldorf Astoria to Chinese firm, by Craig Karmin

Apple takes a bite from Samsung, by Aaron Back

The Associated Press

EU opens formal probe on Amazon’s tax practice, by The Associated Press

1st banker conviction in UK market-fixing scandal, by The Associated Press

Reuters

Fiat says merger with Chrysler effective as of October 12, by Valentina Za

Today in business journalism

Bartiromo: I work six days a week

Bloomberg rehires NYT’s Gillen; policy unclear

Financial Times planning FirstFT email product

Fortune expands, promotes for Most Powerful Women franchise

Dow Jones seeks media companies to hire biz news interns

This date in business journalism history

2008: Critic: Time to rein in Cramer, Velshi

2013: Mobile data mining and the Twitter IPO

Business journalism birthdays

Oct. 7: Laura Marcinek of Bloomberg News

Oct. 7: Jeff Newman of the Indianapolis Business Journal

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