Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Toyota’s humanoid duplicates movements in robotic mobility, by Yuri Kageyama
EU top court: France can’t apply real estate rules on Airbnb
Fortune
The Tech Arms Race Will Never End: Can the Rest of Us Ever Catch Up?, by Clifton Leaf
Why Facebook’s Libra Hangs in Limbo—and What’s Next in the Digital Currency Race, by Robert Hackett
CNN
2019 was the year that tech workers had enough, by Sara AshleyO’Brie
Instagram influencers can no longer promote vaping and guns, by Kaya Yurieff
The Wall Street Journal
Broadcom Looks to Sell Unit That Could Fetch $10 Billion, by Cara Lombardo, Dana Cimilluca
‘The Rise of Skywalker’ Unlikely to Top Recent Star Wars Installments on Opening Weekend, by Erich Schwartzel
Axios
An unsettling future for millions of American jobs, by Erica Pandey
Women won’t see equal pay for another 257 years, report says, by Marisa Fernandez
Reuters
Exclusive: Nvidia to win unconditional EU okay for $6.8 billion Mellanox buy – sources, by Foo Yun Chee
Daimler agrees to $20 million settlement over U.S. vehicle recalls, by David Shepardson
News about business journalism
Louisville Public Media hires Bennett as investigative reporter
Crain’s Detroit hires Manes to cover tech and finance
Miami Herald replacing Saturday print with expanded weekend edition
