Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
GOP attacks Dems’ $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill from all angles, by Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Kevin Freking
Taxing time: How the pandemic will affect filing your taxes, by Sarah Skidmore Sell
CNN
Uber lost $6.8 billion in 2020, by Sara Ashley O’Brien
SpaceX just got a big contract to launch two pieces of a future Moon space station, by Jackie Wattles
The Wall Street Journal
TikTok Sale to Oracle, Walmart Is Shelved as Biden Reviews Security, by John D. McKinnon, Alex Leary
Best Buy Is Cutting Some Store Workers’ Jobs, Reducing Hours, by Sara Nassauer
CNBC
Under Armour pursues plans to break ties with some retailers in push for more profitable sales, by Lauren Thomas
GM has no interest in following Tesla and investing in bitcoin, by Michael Wayland
Reuters
Fed’s Powell, invoking war effort, calls for national jobs drive, by Howard Schneider, Ann Saphir
Mastercard to open up network to select cryptocurrencies
News about business journalism
Bloomberg Industry Group union: Let’s not rush back to the newsroom
Ad Age promotes three editorial staffers to new roles
Bloomberg taps Edney to be national health care reporter
Mosher departs Insider for AST Space Mobile
Behind the WSJ’s effort to help readers ID opinion
Green Street, real estate news company, acquires React News
Fortune taps Schallom to be its digital editor
The Pacific Business News, an American City Business Journals publication, has hired Janis Magin Meierdiercks as…
Sadia Nowshin, a reporter at European startup news site Sifted, is leaving to join literary…
Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter. William Earl of Variety writes, "Shanfeld joins the entertainment…
Kasia Klimasinska is the new team leader for DC breaking news at Bloomberg News. She…
Paul Smalera has organized a gathering of James Ledbetter's friends and colleagues—open to all…
Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Rachel Scheier to cover the San Francisco commercial market.…