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Talking Biz News Today — August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019

Posted by Irina Slav

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Facebook rolls out tool to block off-Facebook data gathering, by Barbara Ortutay

Execs starting to worry about tariffs’ effects on consumers, by Michelle Chapman, Josh Boak

Bloomberg

Trump Cancels Meeting With Danish PM Over Greenland No-Sale, by John Harney, Morten Buttler

Amazon’s Cloud-Computing Empire Faces Threat From Edge of the Network, by Olga Kharif

Fortune

What We Know So Far About the Whistleblower Allegations at Disney, by Erik Sherman

GameStop Eliminates 14% of Corporate Staff in Restructuring, by Christopher Palmeri

CNBC

VMware acquires security start-up Intrinsic in ongoing cloud push, by Jordan Novet

Home Depot says suppliers are moving manufacturing out of China to avoid tariffs, by Jasmine Wu

Reuters

Citigroup, BNP caught up in U.S. case against Huawei CFO: documents, by Karen Freifeld

Japan, U.S. ministers meet for trade talks as hopes for early deal fade, by Yoshifumi Takemoto, Tetsushi Kajimoto

News about business journalism

Becker named Nashville Biz Journal publisher

Facebook hiring for upcoming “News Tab”

PressReader acquires News360

Crain’s hosts second LGBTQ executive reception

How “Morning Brew” built an audience of 1.5 million subscribers

Yahoo Finance launches new “Art Of The Exit” podcast

Katie Shepherd joins Morning Mix at Washington Post as staff writer

Kaitlyn Tiffany joins The Atlantic’s tech team

Chantal Allam joins the Capital Broadcasting Company

Hayleigh Colombo joins Columbus Business First

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