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Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 21, 2014

February 21, 2014

Posted by Meredith Hamrick

Some of Friday’s top stories:

Bloomberg

VW offers $9.2 billion to buy rest of truckmaker Scania, by Christoph Rauwald
Cooling U.S. home sales only partly due to bad weather: economy, by Victoria Stilwell

CNNMoney

Detroit bankruptcy plan proposes slashing pension benefits up to 34%, by Chris Isidore and Melanie Hicken
GM accused of deadly recall delay, by Peter Valdes-Dapena

The Associated Press

Transcripts show Fed grappling with 2008 crisis, by Christopher S. Rugaber and Marcy Gordon

Businessweek

PepsiCo director quitting to lead health institute that touted soda tax, by David Armstrong

And in local news:

Triangle Business Journal

New Hyatt hotel coming to Chapel Hill’s Southern Village, by Amanda Jones Hoyle

Today in business journalism

LA Times biz editor becomes WSJ Brazil bureau chief
Bloomberg News making push in Canada
An homage to Om Malik
MIT Tech Review hires Byrnes as senior editor
Frankie Flack: Screw biz journalists, I love embargoes

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