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Talking Biz News Today — April 23, 2021

April 23, 2021

Posted by Irina Slav

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

US jobless claims fall to 547,000, another pandemic low, by Christopher Rugaber

Countering Biden, GOP pitches $568B for infrastructure, by Kevin Freking, Lisa Mascaro

CNN

New York City sues Big Oil for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, by Laura Ly

This company is selling mystery bags of food to combat restaurant waste, by Alexis Benveniste

The Wall Street Journal

Netflix, Disney and Amazon’s Streaming Wars Heat Up Overseas, by R.T. Watson

Southwest, American Say Leisure Travel Rebounding as Summer Season Approaches, by Alison Sider

CNBC

$260 billion wiped off crytpocurrency market in 24 hours as bitcoin plunges below $50,000, by Arjun Kharpal

SpaceX will launch astronauts with a reused rocket and spacecraft: Here’s what you should know, by Michael Sheetz

Reuters

Biden to float historic tax increase on investment gains for the rich, by Trevor Hunnicutt, Jarrett Renshaw

Tesla CEO Musk puts $100 mln jolt into quest for carbon removal, by Nichola Groom, Hyunjoo Jin

News about business journalism

Mansion Global hires Hendrickson as a reporter

Barron’s hires Welsch as a reporter

Dow Jones hires Hayes as chief business officer, new ventures

NY Times wins Scripps Howard Award in business category

Bloomberg Technology launches “Foundering” podcast

NY Post hires Wayt to cover technology

Ex-WSJ R&D chief, automation editor start computational journalism company with $1.5M funding

What Stephen Brown meant to Politico Europe

TechCrunch reporter O’Hear leaving for grocery startup

Murdoch joins Capital Monitor as corporates editor

GlobalCapital taps Metcalf as people and markets editor

CNBC’s Faber to host “Jeopardy” in August

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