Some of Friday’s top stories:
Reuters
NY factories slow down in November in bad sign for U.S. economy, by Luciana Lopez and Jason Lange
Bloomberg
Forbes Media is working with bankers to sell company, by Alex Sherman, Jeffrey McCracken and Edmund Lee
The human hack: How to fight an internet risk technology can’t fix, by Olga Kharif
New York Times
Facebook amends privacy policies, by Vindu Goel
Businessweek
Spirit Airlines stays low-fare, low-brow with a classy crack joke, by Kyle Stock
Why Obama can’t just uncancel all those insurance plans, by John Tozzi
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