Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
TikTok CEO resigns amid US pressure to sell video app, by Zen Soo
Google location-tracking tactics troubled its own engineers, by Michael Liedtke
CNN
This tiny electric car could cost just $10,000 in the US. But there are tradeoffs, by Peter Valdes-Dapena
The office is dead. Get yourself a backyard shed, by Anna Bahney
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook Says Apple’s New iPhone Update Will Disrupt Online Advertising, by Patience Haggin, Jeff Horwitz
SEC to Allow Businesses More Flexibility in Disclosing Risk, Legal Information, by Mark Maurer
CNBC
Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine shows promising results in small trial of elderly patients, by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Dick’s Sporting Goods crushes Wall Street estimates as online sales surge 194%, shares soar, by Lauren Thomas
Reuters
Chinese EV maker Xpeng increases U.S. IPO size to $1.5 billion, say sources, by Scott Murdoch
U.S. resumes oil, gas lease auctions; bids weaker than pre-pandemic levels, by Nichola Groom
News about business journalism
Nam hired as senior business editor at NPR
WSJ. Magazine names new publisher
Marijuana Biz Daily hires Long as data reporter
Missouri J school receives $3 million for Missouri Business Alert