Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Bitcoin surges past $20,000, erasing 3 years of deep losses, by Ken Sweet
Robinhood accused of downplaying the risks of trading, by Alex Veiga, Stan Choe
CNN
Bill Gates, Amazon and British Airways are backing a hydrogen plane startup, by Hanna Ziady
Facebook feuds with Apple over privacy changes that threaten its advertising business, by Samantha Murphy Kelly
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Shoppers Pull Back at Start of Holiday Season, by Harriet Torry
Amazon Faces Unionization Push in Alabama, a Test in Labor Organizing Bid, by Sebastian Herrera
CNBC
U.S. quarantines Pfizer vaccine shipments in California and Alabama after transit ‘anomaly’ left vials too cold, by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Adidas will keep opening new stores despite Covid e-commerce surge, CEO says, by Kevin Stankiewicz
Reuters
Texas, nine U.S. states accuse Google of working with Facebook to break antitrust law, by Diane Bartz, Paresh Dave
Novartis buys neuroscience company Cadent for up to $770 million
News about business journalism
Schoenberger named editor of Financial Planning
Why Business Insider is offering a free trial to AmEx users
LA Biz Journal hires Rubio as a reporter
Forbes launches fellowship program for HBCU students
Horti promoted to business editor at Business Insider
LA Times hires WSJ’s Malas as deputy business editor
Politico hires Aarup to cover European trade
Washington Post hires De Vynck as AI/algorithms reporter
Connolly departs Bloomberg for strat comm firm
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…
Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…
The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…
CNBC.com deputy technology editor Todd Haselton is leaving the news organization for a job at The Verge.…
Note from CNBC Business News senior vice president Dan Colarusso: After more than 27 years…