Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Dining reservation app OpenTable moves into delivery, by Dee-Ann Durbin
US economy dodges the threat of painful spending cuts, by Christopher Rugaber
Bloomberg
Germany’s Factories Go From Bad to Worse as Economy Treads Water, by Carolynn Look
Standard Life and Lloyds Settle $129 Billion Fund Dispute, by Suzy Waite
CNBC
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo break ties with plastic lobbying group amid mounting scrutiny over pollution, by Emma Newburger
UPS expands delivery to 7 days, add locations and drone delivery, by Frank Holland
CNN
Alibaba will let American companies sell on its site, by Paul R. La Monica
Snapchat shows new signs of life, topping 200 million daily users for first time, by Clare Duffy
Reuters
KKR devours Tim Tam biscuits maker in $2.2 billion deal with Campbell, by Paulina Duran, Byron Kaye
Uber Freight launches in Germany, faces local competition, by Douglas Busvine
News about business journalism
EO Media Group bids for two Oregon newspapers
Bustle Digital Group acquires Inverse
UBS publicly scolds FT reporter Stephen Morris
Bloomberg’s Winkler talks about news service founding
Warfield joins Triad Business Journal as reporter
Chang becomes full-time host for NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…