Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
In the age of Amazon, Walmart is changing its legal name, by Anne D’Innocenzio
Small risk of breast cancer seek with hormone contraceptives, by Carla K. Johnson
Bloomberg
Asian stocks rise as route abates, dollar steady, by Adam Haigh
Fox deal or not, Iger can’t stay at Disney forever, by Tara Lachapelle
Fortune
Why Pfizer is about to slash Viagra’s price in half, by Sy Mukherjee
Bitcoin smashes $14,000 in latest record run, by Jeff John Roberts
Reuters
Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret, by Joseph Menn and Dustin Volz
Home Depot sets $15 billion share buyback, investment plan, by Sruthi Ramakrishnan
News about business journalism
WSJ hires Winkler to write for “Heard on the Street”
Lane promoted to chief content officer at Forbes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch names Brown its business editor
Mashable lays off two business/tech reporters
Gebrekidan of Reuters hired by New York Times
Bloomberg terminal count is on the rise
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