Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
US jobless claims up to 744K as virus still forces layoffs, by Paul Wiseman
Biden seeks a new view of infrastructure, far beyond asphalt, by Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen
CNN
500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site, by Clare Duffy
GM car prices surge as more plants close during the chip shortage, by Chris Isidore
The Wall Street Journal
Netflix Inks Deal for Rights to Sony Movies, Including Coming ‘Spider-Man’ Films, by Joe Flint
SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in Mortgage Startup Better, by Peter Rudegeair, Maureen Farrell
CNBC
National Guard urges U.S. to follow health measures as military races to vaccinate population, by Amanda Macias
More than half of older millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it, by Abigail Johnson Hess
Reuters
Boeing sues, cancels contracts with Air Force One supplier, by David Shepardson, Mike Stone
McDonald’s to hire 25,000 staff in Texas this month
News about business journalism
CNET’s Bakalar moving to games division at Red Ventures
WSJ’s Ngo hired by Hearst CT/Times-Union
Lambert named editorial director of Fortune Education
OneZero senior editor Merchant departs
Forbes NFT cover sells for $333,333
Remote Report to cover the business of remote work
Concannon hired by NPR’s “Planet Money”
Ramsay joining “Bloomberg Surveillance” as associate producer
AP, WSJ, BusinessWeek, Fortune among Deadline Club Award finalists
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…