After Sunday morning’s fight for affordable Lilly Pulitzer, many spent the first half of the week digesting the shortcomings of Target’s handling of the shopping event. But Wednesday’s announcement that Google would release its own wireless service called Project Fi drew headlines and debate for the rest of the week. Finally, another story that permeated much of the week’s coverage dealt with banking, in particular Deutsche Bank, which agreed to pay $2.5 billion in fines and accepted responsibility for certain criminal acts in order to end its rate-rigging case.
What follows are what Talking Biz News views to be the top 10 stories of the week:
Monday
- Fed’s Dudley has last word, and it’s meant to be soothing, by Greg Robb of MarketWatch
- After Deutsche, more pain to come in German retail bank sector, by Thomas Atkins of Reuters
Tuesday
- Spotify worth more than U.S. music industry while Tidal flops, by The Inquisitr
- Shoppers are furious at people reselling Lilly Pulitzer for Target, by Sapna Maheshwari of BuzzFeed
Wednesday
- Exclusive: Twitter execs put stock sales on ice, by Dan Primack of Fortune
- Google introduces Project Fi, its very own cellular service, by Hayley Tsukayama of The Washington Post
Thursday
- Dunkin’ Donuts not getting hurt by rivals’ breakfast wars – yet, by Brian Sozzi of TheStreet
- Amazon swings to small loss while revenue jumps 15%, by David Streitfeld of The New York Times
Friday
- The Wall Street regulators won, by Linette Lopez of Business Insider
- Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders: ‘Don’t just swipe right, get married (a lot)’, by Ryan Mac of Forbes