Today’s Top Business News – The Los Angeles Tribune
- Investigators are reviewing whether the device maker’s acquisitions limited competition in ventilator manufacturing, according to people familiar with the matter, following complaints about machine shortages during the pandemic.
- Roughly 30,000 airline employees could be furloughed Thursday if more federal aid to the industry isn’t forthcoming.
- Google announced a new generation of mobile and smart-home products including two 5G-capable Pixel smartphones, the rebranded smart speaker Nest Audio and aChromecast streaming-media player with a remote control.
- A Costa Rica-based online sportsbook 5Dimes, which illegally took bets from Americans for years, reached a nonprosecution agreement with federal prosecutors as it tries to move into the legal sports-betting market.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to extend its ban on cruise sailings in the U.S. by a month, to Oct. 31, matching industry plans to restart a business that has been largely suspended by the coronavirus pandemic.
- Total SA pledged to ramp up its spending on renewable energy and reduce its dependence on petroleum, the latest move by a major oil company toward cleaner power.
- The social-media company plans to integrate the messaging services of its Messenger and Instagram apps, allowing users of two of its largest platforms to communicate more easily.
- Hackers are launching more brazen attacks aimed at locking down entire networks, not just a few workstations, and increasingly target health-care companies, putting lives at risk as they demand higher bounties.
- During a pandemic, officials rely on a real-time data to respond to emergencies, transfer patients and distribute medicine to those in most need. Little of that happened this year, largely because the system designed to share information broke down.
- U.S. carriers are using higher amounts of some chemicals to show their planes are safe. The unknown long-term effects of these antiviral sprays concern some scientists.