Some Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Frontier attendants say they couldn’t breastfeed on the job, by Colleen Slevin
U.S. housing starts fell 2.6 percent in April, by Martin Crutsinger
Bloomberg
Apple plans laptop upgrades to take on Microsoft, by Mark Gurman and Alex Webb
Rich retirees are hoarding cash out of fear, by Ben Steverman
Fortune
Here’s how much the top hedge-fund manager made last year, by Lucinda Shen
Starbucks computers crash in widespread outage, by Jeff John Roberts
Reuters
Nasdaq launches machine intelligence-enhanced data service, by John McCrank
NYSE wins regulatory approval for “speed bump” exchange, by John McCrank
News about business journalism
New publisher named at Jacksonville Business Journal
Reuters appoints journalism mental health advocate
Wired hires Feinberg to cover politics and internet culture
NY Times assistant biz editor Joshi joining Politico
BuzzFeed hires tech reporter Mac from Forbes
How to get a reluctant source to talk on the record
This date in business journalism
2012: Minneapolis paper hires new biz columnist
2007: Murdoch to spent $100 million launching Fox Business
Business journalism birthday
May 17: Xana Antunes of Quartz
