Some of Monday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
CEOs gather to speak out against voting law changes
Amazon warehouse workers reject union bid in Alabama, by Joseph Pisani, Alexandra Olson, Anne D’Innocenzio
CNN
Mastercard launches carbon calculator in its latest attempt to go green, by Alexis Benveniste
Supply chain problems hit cars and … ketchup packets, by Julia Horowitz
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Faces Uphill Climb to Rival China’s Rare-Earth Magnet Industry, by Alistair McDonald
Sizzling Stock Market Sets High Bar for Earnings Season, by Karen Langley
CNBC
Four ways consumer spending will change once more people are vaccinated, by Melissa Repko
Entertainment venues still waiting for a lifeline as tech glitches snarl Covid relief applications, by Kate Rogers
Reuters
Apple agrees to testify before U.S. Senate on app store antitrust concerns, by Paresh Dave
Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications for about $16 billion -source, by Krystal Hu
News about business journalism
How the lack of economic data lockups affects reporting
Canary Media editor in chief St. John talks its strategy
The WSJ battle: EIC Murray vs. publisher Latour
Internal WSJ audit: Paper need to rethink how it covers news and its audience
Protocol hires Bloomberg’s Brody to cover tech policy
Kessler joins Dealbook team at NY Times
Murphy departing Protocol for IBM Research
The Information hires WSJ’s Patel as a media reporter
Protocol hires Statt to cover video game industry
CNET’s Guglielmo talks about how the pandemic changed tech news