Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
California crisis of fires, blackouts decades in the making, by Jonathan J. Cooper
Fed’s Powell sees steady growth, signals pause in rate cuts, by Christopher Rugaber
Fortune
Most Executives Fear Their Companies Will Fail If They Don’t Adopt A.I., by Jonathan Vanian
Cleveland Clinic, Duke, MIT, and USC to Split a No-Strings-Attached $1 Billion Gift, by Jeff Amy, Kantele Franko
CNN
FBI busts $6 million iPhone and iPad counterfeit ring, by Ahiza Garcia
Facebook has shut down 5.4 billion fake accounts this year, by Brian Fung, Ahiza Garcia
CNBC
Obamacare early sign-ups drop 20% as Trump-backed lawsuit challenges constitutionality, Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Germany narrowly avoids a technical recession with 0.1% growth in the third quarter, by Spriha Srivastava
Reuters
Key antitrust lawmaker frustrated with Google’s Fitbit deal, by Diane Bartz, Nandita Bose
China holds in-depth talks with U.S. on phase one of trade deal, by Gabriel Crossley
News about business journalism
Computerworld parent launching subscription tech news site
Yarm hired as contributing features editor at Input
WSJ hires Wellisz for economy team
Longtime biz journalist Rohrer dies at 81
Yahoo Finance set to launch new podcast
Quartz has 10,000+ paying members
Bloomberg hires Batra as digital news editor in Hong Kong
