Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Stock market today: World shares mostly lower, oil advances, by Elaine Kurtenbach
Elon Musk’s Twitter drops government-funded media labels, by Barbara Ortutay
BuzzFeed News will shut down , by Oliver Darcy
Ikea stores coming soon to 8 new US locations, by Anna Cooban
Apple Plans iPhone Journaling App in Expansion of Health Initiatives, by Aaron Tilley
Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Slow Hiring, Won’t Rule Out Future Layoffs, by Salvador Rodriguez, Jeff Horwitz and Sam Schechner
Home sales fell in March amid volatility in mortgage rates, by Diana Olick
SpaceX Starship rocket launches in historic test but explodes mid-flight, by Michael Sheetz and Sara Salinas
Procter & Gamble raises full-year sales forecast on higher pricing
Amazon launches program to identify and track counterfeiters
Bloomberg Media announces new streaming programming
Why business journalists like LinkedIn
SABEW executive director Graham resigns
Bloomberg is expanding its artificial intelligence coverage
CNN hires Buchwald as economy explainer reporter
Skift editor in chief has departed
BuzzFeed shuts down, USA Today’s EIC departs, media moves at NBC News, CNN
Bloomberg contemplates life without Bloomberg
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…
Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…
The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…
CNBC.com deputy technology editor Todd Haselton is leaving the news organization for a job at The Verge.…
Note from CNBC Business News senior vice president Dan Colarusso: After more than 27 years…