Some of Monday’s top stories:
New York Times
F.D.A. shift on painkillers was years in the making, by Barry Meier and Eric Lipton
Disruptions: Are eager investors over-valuing tech start-ups? by Nick Bilton
Bloomberg
Twitter go-it-alone app strategy boosts costs before IPO, by Ari Levy
Reuters
Merck third-quarter profit beats estimate, but Januvia sales slump, by Ransdell Pierson
AMC Networks to buy Chellomedia from Liberty Global, by Soham Chatterjee
CNNMoney
‘I was overpaid by Social Security,’ by Blake Ellis
Forbes
Google and Facebook get a thumbs down from this new site that reviews privacy policies, by Adam Tanner
Fortune
Pandora at the crossroads, by Kevin Kelleher
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