Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The Associated Press
Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over Threads
Food delivery services sue NYC over minimum pay rates for app-based workers
CNN
US job openings dropped below 10 million in May, by Alicia Wallace
White House takes steps to avoid damaging auto strike, by Chris Isidore and Betsy Klein
The Wall Street Journal
Meta’s Threads App Sees Early Success, Drawing Advertiser Interest and Twitter’s Ire, by Salvador Rodriguez and Patience Haggin
U.S. Oil Boom Blunts OPEC’s Pricing Power, by Bob Henderson
CNBC
Ford’s U.S. sales jump 9.9% on big gains for its F-Series trucks, by Michael Wayland and John Rosevear
Mortgage demand drops to lowest level in a month, as interest rates rise, by Diana Olick
Reuters
Amazon’s iRobot deal in EU antitrust crosshairs, by Foo Yun Chee
US labor agency sues Starbucks over treatment of Seattle workers, by Jonathan Stempel
News about business journalism:
Senior editor Pflanzer departing Business Insider
Gonzalez departing Axios for Albritton Journalism Institute
BBC biz correspondent Hussain moving to South Asia
Serrano swaps Gizmodo for The Messenger
Philly’s ABC station makes anchor move, NY Times names art director, Telemundo Colorado promotes two