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Talking Biz News — Oct. 19, 2021

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

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