This week’s top business news — March 2-6, 2015

From lifestyle website Refinery29’s fundraising efforts to Target’s announcement of a jobs cut, the retail industry controlled much of this week’s news. But one of the biggest, or at least most talked about, stories of the week was the announcement of crafting retailer Etsy’s public offering on the NASDAQ.

Monday

• A warning from Buffet about banks, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times
• Twitter investigates alleged ISIS threat to Jack Dosey, employees, by Yoree Koh of The Wall Street Journal

Tuesday

• Exclusive: Refinery29 is raising up to $50 million, by Erin Griffith of Fortune
• Ex-American Apparel chief rallies workers to organize at secret meeting, by Jason Wells and Sapna Maheshwari of BuzzFeed

Wednesday

• Target’s new strategy: We need more than just minivan moms, by Sarah Halzack of The Washington Post
• Etsy lost its soul, but that doesn’t matter to its IPO, by Cade Metz of Wired

Thursday

• Tesla’s new, voluminous risk disclosures, by Elizabeth MacDonald of Fox Business
• HBO in talks with Apple and Google to partner in launch of ‘HBO Now’, by Jon Kostakopoulos of The Street

Friday

• March Madness bracket obsession actually moves stock prices, by Anna-Louise Jackson of Bloomberg
• At long last, Dow gets a taste for Apple, by David Gaffen of Reuters