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Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 15, 2018

August 15, 2018

Posted by Chris Roush

TBNSome of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

U.S. retailers, small companies rally as Turkey fears ease, by Marley Jay

Tesla forms committee to assess proposal to go private, by Michael Liedtke

Bloomberg

Buffett’s Berkshire adds to bets on Goldman Sachs, Southwest, by Katherine Chiglinsky

Spotify’s $8 billion rally is attracting loads of hedge funds, by Jeran Wittenstein

Fortune

Tiffany & Co. to spend at least $250 million on Fifth Avenue store remodel, by Phil Wahba

Tinder lawsuit alleges sexual abuse cover-up by IAC/Match Group, by Erin Corbett

Reuters 

U.S. hedge funds bet on tech, retail in second quarter as economy sizzled, by David Randall and Svea Herbst-Bayliss

Monsanto Roundup appeal has uphill climb on “junk science” grounds, by Tina Bellon

News about business journalism

Axios hires Salmon, Brown to cover finance and markets

Why Symphony has not turned into a “Bloomberg killer”

How The Penny Hoarder newsroom is structured

WSJ hires Cho as news researcher

Dallas Biz Journal hires Tompkins as data reporter

Dallas Biz Journal hires new real restate reporter

Bloomberg launching “Invitation Only” as broader video push

Yahoo Finance hires four for video production and studio team

This date in business journalism

2013: Quartz passes Economist in U.S. web traffic

2008: Atlanta paper names new biz editor, new biz columnist

Business journalism birthday

Aug. 15: Spencer Soper of Bloomberg News

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