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Talking Biz News Today — August 13, 2019

August 13, 2019

Posted by Irina Slav

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Why many employees feel devalued even in booming job market, by Michelle R. Smith

Trump to promote turning natural gas into plastics in Pa., by Jill Colvin, Josh Boak

Bloomberg

A Steady Diet of Nothing Is Making Equity Investors Irritable, by Elena Popina

Amazon Nears Deal for Up to 10% of India’s Second-Largest Retailer, by Saritha Rai, Ari Altstedter, P.R. Sanjai

Fortune

Walmart Is Taken to Task for Pro-Gun T-shirts Sold on Website by Third-Party Vendors, by Jonathan Roeder

Tumblr, Once Yahoo’s $1.1 Billion Baby, to Sell for Under $20 Million to WordPress Owner Automattic, Reports Say, by David Z. Morris

CNBC

Nike is entering the subscription business with a kids’ sneaker club, by Lauren Thomas

K-cup maker CEO says single pods in the US will be recyclable by end of 2020, by Tyler Clifford

Reuters

Exclusive: Google’s jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals, by Foo Yun Chee, Paresh Dave

African Americans underserved by U.S. banks: study, by Imani Moise

News about business journalism

Shawn Carter joins Fox News

Dallas Biz Journal real estate reporter leaving for culinary school

ACBJ buys majority stake in biz data provider

LinkedIn hires Taylor as community editor

Peter Jamison joins local enterprise team at the Washington Post

Times Media expands outside of Arizona

Justine Calma joins The Verge

The FT is using polls in its newsletters to increase retention

Diaz leaves senior producer position at CNBC

Forbes hires Adweek’s Swant to cover marketing/advertising

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