Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Automakers step up pace on electric vehicle battery plants, by Tom Krisher
Lawmakers give Amazon ‘final chance’ to clear up testimony, by Matt Ott, Marcy Gordon
CNN
America’s factories were hurt by shortages of workers and supplies last month, by Anneken Tappe
North America’s biggest container port faces record backlog, by Alexandra Meeks
The Wall Street Journal
Zillow Says It Can’t Buy Any More Homes This Year, by Will Parker
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for Government Action on Cybersecurity, Innovation, by Tripp Mickle
CNBC
SEC says brokers enticed by payment for order flow are making trading into a game to lure investors, by Yun Li
Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public, by Jordan Novet
Reuters
Amazon to hire 150,000 U.S. workers for holiday shopping season
BlackRock backs expansion of corporate climate data project, by Simon Jessop
News about business journalism
Forbes reporter Cai moves to the tech team
Bloomberg names new leaders for media, telecom, entertainment team
BuzzFeed hires Baker-White as senior tech reporter
Cohen to cover New York courts for Reuters
FT hires White from Reuters for Paris bureau
Politico hires Lee to cover food policy
Insider hires Siu to cover Apple and Google mobile platforms
WSJ hires Ali as audio producer
Stolton joins Politico as tech reporter
Sable-Smith joins Kaiser Health News as Midwest correspondent
Investor’s Business Daily hires Buysse as senior audience development strategist
WSJ taps Brandt to cover luxury real estate
