Press Digest: New York Times business news - Oct. 4

Paradium.AI

04/10/2019 08:47

Oct 4 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the
New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    - Attorney General William Barr took aim at Facebook Inc's
 FB.O  plan to make WhatsApp and its other messaging services
more secure, pressing its Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to
create a loophole to that goal of full encryption. The Justice
Department said that investigators needed lawful access to
encrypted communications to fight terrorism, organized crime. https://nyti.ms/2oMzjVM
    
    - TheMaven Inc, which licensed the rights to Sports
Illustrated's print and digital publications earlier this year,
has laid off employees of Sports Illustrated, although the
number of layoffs was not immediately clear. https://nyti.ms/331fgS3
    
    - Top Federal Reserve officials have said they are
open-minded about whether additional interest rate cuts will be
necessary in 2019, but recent economic data are putting that
equanimity to the test. https://nyti.ms/31PprZS
   
     - AT&T Inc's  T.N  WarnerMedia said new episodes of the
50-year-old children's television franchise Sesame Street will
appear first on HBO Max, the streaming app from that will debut
next year. https://nyti.ms/332wRci
    
    - Illnesses and deaths linked to vaping continue to increase
around the United States, now totaling 1,080 cases and 19
deaths, health officials said on Thursday. https://nyti.ms/2pMc4vz
   

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
 ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))