Some of Monday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
50 years later, the moon is still great for business, by Alexandra Olson
States’ push to legalize sports betting differs by region, by Geoff Mulvihill
Bloomberg
Uniqlo Owner Considers Paying Star Employees $280,000 After 3 Years, by Lisa Du, Chikafumi Hodo
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach, by Kartikay Mehrotra, Aoife White
Fortune
Gin Sales Are Booming and It Could Be Thanks to the Growing Plant Craze, by John Kell
Why Barnes & Noble May Soon Look Like the Local Bookstores It Killed Off, by Phil Wahba
Reuters
Eldorado Resorts clinches $18 billion cash and stock deal for Caesars: sources, by Greg Roumeliotis
U.S. arms makers see booming European demand as threats multiply, by Andrea Shalal
News about Business Journalism
Houston Biz Journal reporter Rahman leaves for ICIS
NerdWallet’s Richards leaving to teach at Syracuse
The Quartz Brief app is being shut down
Financial Times hires Kruppa for VC beat
BuzzFeed hires Lucas to oversee tech/biz coverage
Former Republican operative with white nationalist ties publishing op-eds in WSJ
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