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Talking Biz News Today — May 3, 2021

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Apple’s app store goes on trial in threat to ‘walled garden’, by Michael Liedtke

Wyoming backs coal with $1.2M threat to sue other states, by Mead Gruver

CNN

Washington Post, New York Times, and NBC News retract reports on Giuliani, by Oliver Darcy

Chlorine shortage may be bad news for pools this summer, by Paul R. La Monica

The Wall Street Journal

From Apple to Domino’s Pizza, U.S. Companies Scramble to Meet Surge in Demand, by Thomas Gryta, Theo Francis

Dell Reaches Deal to Sell Boomi to TPG, Francisco Partners, by Miriam Gottfried

CNBC

Audiences for award shows are in steep decline. This chart shows how far viewership has fallen, by Sarah Whitten

New York City indoor dining capacity to increase to 75% in May as Covid restrictions ease, by Rich Mendez

Reuters

Ethereum breaks past $3,000 to quadruple in value in 2021, by Tom Westbrook, Ritvik Carvalho

Climate finance targets top agenda for this week’s G7 meetings

News about business journalism

How the WSJ is pushing for more subscribers

Dallas daily moving DiFurio to consumer companies beat

S&P Global hires Bennett as an energy reporter

Reuters reporter Franklin is departing

Oracle executive bullies The Intercept reporter about stories

Leber joins Vox.com as senior reporter covering climate

Insider hires Davis for investigations team

Keynes, U.S. economics editor for The Economist, moving to Europe beat

Former Marker editor Sacks hired by Bloomberg

Climate editor Shieber departing TechCrunch

Quartz reporter Foley is departing

TechCrunch senior writer Ha is departing

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