Talking Biz News Today – Jan. 7, 2015

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Fed minutes show officials’ concern about low inflation, by Jon Hilsenrath 

Apple scales back orders for its iPhones, by Eva Dou

Bloomberg

Land Rover climbs to the top of a record U.S. car market, by Kyle Stock

BlackBerry joins self-driving car race with its own software, by Gerrit De Vynck 

The Associated Press

Survey: U.S. businesses add 257,000 jobs, most in a year, by Christopher S. Rugaber 

World Bank downgrades global economic forecast for 2016, by Paul Wiseman

Reuters

Apple shares drop below $100 for first time since August, by Dan Burns

Activist investor turns up heat on Yahoo, seeks leadership change, by Michael Flaherty and Lehar Maan 

Quartz

Pretty much everyone on Earth can now get Netflix, by Adam Epstein 

Chipotle just quantified the impact of its E.coli scares–and it’s not good, by Alison Griswold

News about business journalism:

Fox Business beats CNBC on Monday

Loeb Awards now accepting nominations

How Bloomberg Government is changing business

WSJ articles now appearing on Snapchat

Celarier leaves NY Post biz desk

WSJ names Western its Asia business editor

Reuters’ Gillam joins Right to Know as research director

How Forbes.com has overcome ad blocking software

Gunther leaving biz journalism to write about philanthropy

This date in business journalism history:

2013: How Murdoch has changed The Wall Street Journal

2008: BusinessWeek needs to prove itself to readers

Business journalism birthdays: 

Jan. 7: Dagen McDowell of Fox Business Network

Jan. 7: Amy Thomson of Bloomberg News