Friday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
Cost of treatment may influence doctors, by Andrew Pollack
Walmart will enter cash wiring business, by Elizabeth A. Harris
The Wall Street Journal
What’s Barnes and Noble’s survival plan? by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
The Associated Press
Venture investments highest since 2001, by Barbara Ortutay
China says one-fifth of its farmland is polluted, by Ian Mader
Reuters
Compensation battle rages four years after BP’s U.S. oil spill, by Jemima Kelly
Businessweek
Patagonia dreaming: Kris Tompkins works to build the best national park, by Brad Wieners
Fortune
Can IPO-bound Zoosk be the Netflix for online dating? by Daniel Roberts
Re/code
The Heartbleed bug is mostly fixed, but not entirely, by Arik Hesseldahl
Today in business journalism
Cavuto of Fox Biz: Happy anniversary, CNBC
Virtu IPO pulled
This date in business journalism history
2011: CNBC.com launches Asia Pacific site
2012: Fake Bank of America release targets Dow Jones, WSJ
Business journalism birthdays
April 18: Linette Lopez of Business Insider
Dayna Fields has been hired by Octus, formerly known as Reorg, as a senior private credit…
Bloomberg News has hired Elizabeth Rembert to cover municipal finance. She will start Dec. 16 and be…
Michael Tsang, managing editor of the markets editing hub at Bloomberg News, sent out the…
Avi Asher-Schapiro, a tech correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Los Angeles, has been…
MLex has hired Maria Dinzeo as a senior data privacy and security reporter. She will start next…
ProPublica has hired Reuters cybersecurity reporter Christopher Bing as a reporter in its Washington bureau. He…