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Talking Biz News Today — June 15, 2020

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Europe reopens many borders but not to Americans, Asians, by Geir Moulson

Pandemic leads to a bicycle boom, and shortage, around world, by David Sharp, Kelvin Chan

CNN

The pandemic could have ruined this sustainable business. But instead, it’s expanding nationwide, by Danielle Wiener-Bronner

Crisis Text Line CEO fired amid staff revolt, by Sara Ashley O’Brien

The Wall Street Journal

Small Businesses Tackle New PPP Puzzle: Forgiveness, by Ruth Simon, Peter Rudegeair

Facial Recognition Companies Commit to Police Market After Amazon, Microsoft Exit, by Jared Council

CNBC

BP to write down up to $17.5 billion in second quarter, lowers oil price expectations to 2050,by Sam Meredith

The $100 billion conventions industry is starting to reopen after a months-long coronavirus shutdown, by Contessa Brewer, Katie Young

Reuters

Unilever to invest 1 billion euros in climate change fund over 10 years, by Siddharth Cavale

Amazon’s business practices examined by two U.S. states, by Ayanti Bera

News about business journalism

How CNBC is building its membership programs

Covering the tech boom at CNET, and learning about tech coverage

Regis, former editor at WSJ, dies at 68

Twitter restores Zero Hedge after admitting mistake

Azevedo leaving Crunchbase for Housing Wire

Institutional Investor CEO: We need to do better

Financial Times launches sports business vertical Scoreboard

Agweek hires Beal as multimedia journalist

New editor proposed at top Russian business newspaper

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