Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Judge rejects Purdue Pharma’s sweeping opioid settlement, by Geoff Mulvihill
Spyware find highlights depth of hacker-for-hire industry, by Frank Bajak
CNN
Rivian to open $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia, by Matt McFarland
Regulators open probe into red hot ‘buy now, pay later’ industry, by Paul R. La Monica
The Wall Street Journal
Oracle in Talks to Buy Cerner, by Cara Lombardo, Dana Cimilluca
FedEx Revenue Rises but Labor Shortages Continue to Dent Business, by Paul Ziobro
CNBC
Millennial millionaires plan to add more crypto in 2022, CNBC Millionaire Survey finds, by Robert Frank
Alphabet to fold Sidewalk Labs into Google as project’s founder steps down, by Jennifer Elias
Reuters
Facebook exposes mercenary spy firms that targeted 50,000 people, by Raphael Satter, Elizabeth Culliford
Striking Kellogg workers could return after Christmas as tentative deal reached, by Praveen Paramasivam
News about business journalism
Tampa Bay Times real estate reporter to become political editor
Pflanzer promoted to senior health care editor at Insider
Philly Inquirer names Minaya its deputy business editor
Bloomberg names Katz its Paris bureau chief
STAT hires Ravindranath to cover health tech
WSJ moves two reporters to marketing team
