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Talking Biz News Today — May 18, 2017

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Google unveils latest tech tricks as computers get smarter, by Michael Liedtke

Business, leisure travelers ponder traveling without laptop, by David Koenig and Joyce M. Rosenberg

Bloomberg

Bank stocks don’t deserve a battering, by Gillian Tan

Buyers with excellent credit are getting the lion’s share of U.S. mortgages, by Craig Torres and Alexandre Tanzi

Fortune

Five Guys beats out In-N-Out Burger as most popular burger chain, by Lucinda Shen

Amazon’s next big disruption may be the pharmacy business, by Sy Mukherjee

Reuters

U.S. preparing to sue Fiat Chrysler over excess diesel emissions, by David Shepardson

Ford to cut 1,400 white-collar jobs; shares tumble, by David Shepardson

News about business journalism

How Global Atlanta covers international news with a local perspective

Ruhle, Velshi to anchor business news show on MSNBC

Layoffs hit IDG publications MacWorld, CIO

Cheddar has raised $19 million in funding

Reuters names Latin America editor, Mexico/Central America bureau chief

TheStreet.com editor Murphy has resigned

This date in business journalism

2012: Judge dismisses suit against Bloomberg

2007: Sloan leaves Newsweek for Fortune

Business journalism birthday

May 18: David Allison of the Atlanta Business Chronicle

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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