Talking Biz News Today – Sept. 17, 2015

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Uber rivals form international alliance, by Douglas MacMillan and Rick Carew

FedEx trims outlook on weak freight demand, by Laura Stevens

Quartz

China’s latest refusal to fix its state-owned companies is bad news for the global economy, by Gwynn Guilford 

The US gender wage gap, the narrowest in history, is still awful, by Frida Garza

Bloomberg

The richest Americans are winning the economic recovery, by Victoria Stilwell and Alexandre Tanzi

Under Armour expects to generate $7.5 billion in revenue by 2018, by Courtney Dentch and Nick Turner 

The Associated Press

Obama using business CEOs meeting to apply budget pressure, by Kevin Freking 

King of beers: Makers of Budweiser, Miller eye global merger, by Danica Kirka 

Reuters

Weak U.S. inflation complicates Fed rate decision, by Lucia Mutikani 

Microsoft discriminated against women in pay, promotions: U.S. lawsuit, by Daniel Wiessner

News about business journalism:

Can Bloomberg be knocked off its throne?

Reuters holding personal finance conversations on Twitter

First Word leader Reynolds leaves Bloomberg

ProPublica’s Podkul wins Birger award

Hamilton named AP technology writer

Bloomberg signs data licensing agreement with Twitter

CNBC Digital posts record August

How CNBC’s Epperson got into business journalism

This date in business journalism history:

2013: Our job is to demystify and explain

2013: The business of media

Business journalism birthdays:

Sept. 17: Bonnie Cha with Autodesk

Sept. 17: Sarah Frier with Bloomberg

Sept. 17: Geoff Colvin with Fortune

Sept. 17: Gabby Stern with WSJ