Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
Facebook opens messenger for app developers, by Vindu Goel
Apple and Beats developing streaming music service to rival Spotify, by Ben Sisario and Brian X. Chen
The Wall Street Journal
The high cost of saving a failing business, by Katy Stech and Angus Loten
Comcast pushes back closing for Time Warner Cable merger to middle of 2015, by Shalini Ramachandran
Fortune
Adidas aiming for faster sales and profit growth from 2016, by Reuters
Are Buffett and Heinz overpaying for Kraft?, by Stephen Gandel
Quartz
Some luxury watchmakers are actually cheering on the Apple Watch, by Jason Karaian
The Associated Press
The latest: Prosecutor says work underway to ID remains, by The Associated Press
News about business journalism
SABEW announces finalists for Canadian Best in Business
WSJ offering iPad with its app for free to subscriber
Forbes to pay contributors less for old content
Bloomberg TV to launch in Philippines
How BuzzFeed plans to cover the tech industry
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Esther Kaplan, the investigations editor at Business Insider, has left the news organization after just…