Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
To gain the upper hand, Amazon disrupts itself, by David Streitfeld
Insurance firms Aviva and Friends Life agree to $8.8 billion merger, by Chad Bray
The Wall Street Journal
Dodgy home appraisals are making a comeback, by Annamaria Andriotis
Supreme Court weighs when social-media threats become criminal acts, by Brent Kendall
Cirque du Soleil’s next act: Rebalancing the business, by Alexandra Berzon
Bloomberg
Web consumers expand holiday shopping beyond Cyber Monday, by Spencer Soper
DAX’s ‘brilliant’ run sends red flag as German index tops record, by Jonathan Morgan
Fortune
Fed’s Stanley Fischer: We still need to deal with the shadow banks, by Stephen Gandel
Blackstone to sell IndCor Properties to Singapore’s GIC for $8.1 billion, by Reuters
The Associated Press
FBI looking into hack of Sony Pictures’ computers, by The Associated Press
Today in business journalism
GQ Roll Call acquires Federal News Service from Dolan
NYT’s TV reporter Carter is taking the buyout
Capital Business names new web editor
Business journalists flocking to Ello
WSJ goes mobile using partners
This date in business journalism history
2009: Dobbs: Never talked to CNBC or Fox about jobs
2011: Consumer Reports launches iPad subs, smart phone apps
Business journalism birthdays
Dec. 2: Peter Burrows of Bloomberg Businessweek
Dec. 2: Spencer Ante of WhoWeUse
Dec. 2: Kristi Swartz of EnergyWire
