Some of Thursday’s top stories:
New York Times
Time Warner Cable and Comcast strike $45.2 billion deal, by David Gelles
Facebook deal on privacy is under attack, by Vindu Goel
Reuters
Retail sales drop unexpectedly in January, by Lucia Mutikani
GM recalls 778,562 compact cars in North America for ignition issue, by Ben Klayman
Businessweek
A Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger may be just fine with regulators, by Justin Bachman
Making the economic case for more than the minimum wage, by Peter Coy
Re/code
Ahead of acquisition binge, Lenovo quarterly revenue tops $10 billion for first time, by Ina Fried
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