Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Microsoft makes case for Activision merger amid EU scrutiny
Home sales sank in January for the 12th straight month, by Anna Bahney
Dow drops by nearly 700 points as retail earnings disappoint, by Nicole Gookind
Amazon Purchase of One Medical Health Clinics Won’t Be Blocked by FTC, by Dave Michaels
People of Color Fill One Out of Five Corporate Board Seats for the First Time, by Joseph De Avila
Amazon employees express dismay, anger about sudden return-to-office policy, by Annie Palmer
Walmart and Home Depot are getting ready for a consumer slowdown, by Melissa Repko
British supermarkets confront their German discounting demons, by James Davey
McKinsey to cut 2,000 jobs in one of its biggest layoffs – Bloomberg News
Denver Biz Journal’s Sealover to start chamber publication
Rabil joining standards and ethics team at WSJ
Sneider named staff editor for Wired’s Ideas section
Media Movers: Triangle Business Journal’s Dane Huffman
WSJ executive producer Bosonin departs
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…
Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…
The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…
CNBC.com deputy technology editor Todd Haselton is leaving the news organization for a job at The Verge.…
Note from CNBC Business News senior vice president Dan Colarusso: After more than 27 years…