Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
At $17.3 billion, Google’s quarterly revenue rose 12 percent, by Conor Dougherty
Comcast is said to end $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable, by Emily Steel, David Gelles, Rebecca R. Ruiz and Eric Lipton
The Wall Street Journal
Higher prices fail to salvage profits, by Theo Francis and Serena Ng
Is the Nasdaq in another bubble?, by Roger Kenny and Ana Asnes Becker
Business Insider
Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis accused of being ‘a time-waster, a gambler, and an amateur’, by Tomas Hirst
This is the real reason that HSBC may ditch London and move its HQ abroad, by Mike Bird
Quartz
The Knot proves that founders should ignore advice they don’t agree with, by Anne Kreamer
The way to start a real fashion revolution: put Bangladesh’s invisible garment factories on a map, by Jenni Avins
News about business journalism
Writing Maytag magazine articles led to legendary biz journalism career
Business Insider plans to double its video staff
Forbes launches new product for online content
Business Insider’s big rise in viewers
Bloomberg journalist leaving for cookie business
This date in business journalism history
2006: LA Times’ biz columnist did a “dumb thing”
2013: Swisher succeeds by making more phone calls than her competition
Business journalism birthdays
April 24: Joseph Adinolfi of MarketWatch
April 25: Morgan Brennan of CNBC
April 25: Phil LeBeau of CNBC
