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Talking Biz News Today — April 2, 2015

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The New York Times

Walmart emerges as unlikely social force, by Hiroko Tabuchi and Michael Barbaro

Auto sales slow after months of healthy growth, by Bill Vlasic and Aaron M. Kessler

The Wall Street Journal

RadioShack is dead, long live RadioShack, by Peg Brickley and Drew Fitzgerald

EU lays groundwork for antitrust charges against Google, by Tom Fairless and Alistair Barr

The Washington Post

Citizens Bank to offer parents loans to pay for college, by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Iceland has a radical plan to redefine money, by Max Ehrenfreund

CNBC

Fed’s Yellen: Research needed to understand inequality issue, by Reuters

US weekly jobless claims total 268,000 vs 285,000 estimate, by Reuters

News about business journalism

Reuters hires online producer/social media deputy

Bloomberg DC bureau chief leaves for Vox

Economist’s deputy editor Standage talks Espresso

April Fools’: Quartz hires artificially intelligent tech reporter

CNBC hires two data journalists

This date in business journalism history

2006: Fixing Fast Company magazine

2009: Forbes and females

Business journalism birthdays

April 2: Emily Steel of The New York Times

April 2: Julia La Roche of Business Insider

April 2: Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York

Meg Garner

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