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Talking Biz News Today — Feb 23, 2021

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Biden boosts pandemic lending to smallest businesses, by Zeke Miller

Boeing: 777s with engine that blew apart should be grounded

CNN

MyPillow and CEO Mike Lindell hit with $1.3 billion lawsuit, by Jordan Valinsky

After the GameStop fiasco, momentum builds for an $800 billion tax, by Matt Egan

The Wall Street Journal

Enovix Set to Go Public Through a SPAC in Deal Valued at $1.1 Billion, by Heather Sommerville

Goodyear to Buy Rival Cooper Tire for $2.8 Billion, by Micah Maidenberg

CNBC
Movie theaters in New York City can open in March at 25% capacity, by Sarah Whitten, Noah Higgins-Dunn

Chief of Cherokee Nation wants Jeep to stop using tribe’s name on SUVs, by Michael Wayland

Reuters

Facebook ‘refriends’ Australia after changes to media laws, by Colin Packham, Byron Kaye

Tesla rival Lucid Motors to go public in $24-billion mega SPAC deal

News about business journalism

Inc. magazine hires Wenger as a deputy editor

Quartz audience editor Stier joins MSNBC

ACBJ hires Patel to cover minority business in Houston

Adweek senior editor Zanger to depart

Boston named team leader for Bloomberg’s distressed debt, bankruptcy team

Bloomberg hires Goldberg as Boston bureau chief

Smart Cities Dive senior editor Musulin is departing

Rapier now associate editor in Insider’s business news desk

WSJ reporter Glazer to cover business leaders and their power

NY Times econ correspondent Tankersley moves to White House team

City University partners with Bloomberg on biz journalism diversity scheme

Crain’s Henderson inducted to Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame

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