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Talking Biz News Today — Dec. 15, 2020

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection, by Marcy Gordon

US, states crack down on scams bilking desperate Americans, by Marcy Gordon

CNN

Pinterest settles gender discrimination lawsuit with former exec for $22.5 million, by Rishi Ilyengar

Mastercard, Visa and Discover cut ties with Pornhub following allegations of child abuse, by Jazmin Goodwin

The Wall Street Journal

UAW Reaches Settlement With Feds in Multiyear Corruption Probe, by Ben Foldy, Nora Naughton

Group Nine Media Explores Blank-Check Company for Digital-Media Acquisitions, by Benjamin Mullin

CNBC

Costco CEO says company is doubling down on brick-and-mortar, even as it invests in e-commerce, by Kevin Stankiewicz

Funding for vaccine distribution at stake in the push for a new Covid relief bill, by Tucker Higgins

Reuters

U.S. tech giants face 6-10% fines as EU set rules to curb their power, by Foo Yun Chee

U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack, by Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter, Joseph Menn

News about business journalism

EU asks Chinese to allow detained Bloomberg reporter access to lawyer, health care

Variety hires Adweek’s Zorrilla as a reporter

Smalera named editor in chief of The Business of Business

Sportico adds two editorial staffers with Intercollegiate acquisitions

NY Times Opinion hires Mahanta as vertical editor for business, economics and tech

Dow Jones names Filippo its executive vice president of business information

Gizmodo ME Jakola is departing

Skolimowski moving to Bloomberg’s Warsaw bureau

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