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Talking Biz News Today — April 12, 2021

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

CEOs gather to speak out against voting law changes

Amazon warehouse workers reject union bid in Alabama, by Joseph Pisani, Alexandra Olson, Anne D’Innocenzio

CNN

Mastercard launches carbon calculator in its latest attempt to go green, by Alexis Benveniste

Supply chain problems hit cars and … ketchup packets, by Julia Horowitz

The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Faces Uphill Climb to Rival China’s Rare-Earth Magnet Industry, by Alistair McDonald

Sizzling Stock Market Sets High Bar for Earnings Season, by Karen Langley

CNBC

Four ways consumer spending will change once more people are vaccinated, by Melissa Repko

Entertainment venues still waiting for a lifeline as tech glitches snarl Covid relief applications, by Kate Rogers

Reuters

Apple agrees to testify before U.S. Senate on app store antitrust concerns, by Paresh Dave

Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications for about $16 billion -source, by Krystal Hu

News about business journalism

How the lack of economic data lockups affects reporting

Canary Media editor in chief St. John talks its strategy

The WSJ battle: EIC Murray vs. publisher Latour

Internal WSJ audit: Paper need to rethink how it covers news and its audience

Protocol hires Bloomberg’s Brody to cover tech policy

Kessler joins Dealbook team at NY Times

Murphy departing Protocol for IBM Research

The Information hires WSJ’s Patel as a media reporter

Protocol hires Statt to cover video game industry

CNET’s Guglielmo talks about how the pandemic changed tech news

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