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Talking Biz News Today — Feb. 5, 2014

February 5, 2014

Posted by Meredith Hamrick

Wednesday’s top stories:

New York Times

CVS vows to quit selling tobacco products, by Stephanie Strom
Study of blood clot drug Pradaxa unnerved its maker, documents suggest, by Katie Thomas

Bloomberg

SoftBank said to seek decision on T-Mobile bid in coming weeks, by Alex Sherman, Takashi Amano and Scott Moritz

Businessweek

Twitter is having trouble adding users, but learning to make money from them, by Joshua Brustein
Goal No. 1 for YouTube: Compete with TV, by Joshua Brustein

CNNMoney

Green Mountain stock soars on Coke partnership, by James O’Toole

Forbes

Pandora hits a sour note with 2014 outlook, by Maggie McGrath

Today in business journalism

DeMott, former Time biz writer, dies at 76
What has become of business journalism?
WSJ names news editor mobile content
Weissmann hired by Slate to write MoneyBox
Fox Business to shuffle daytime schedule
Microsoft goes with the cloud

This date in business journalism history

2008: Former Dow Jones board member settles with SEC
2013: Business columnist dies at 80

Business journalism birthdays

Feb. 5: Jeff Engel of Xconomy.com

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