Swiss franc rises vs euro, dollar hovers around 16-month high

The dollar eased against its major peers on Monday, but remained near its 16-month high hit last week on the back of inflation concerns, as investors looked forward to fresh data this week on the state of the U.S. consumer.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/dollar-eases-16-mth-high-traders-seek-clues-fed-rate-plans-2021-11-15/?source=Snapzu

Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed

The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/substack-future-chris-best/?source=Snapzu

Apple secretly buying ads for their apps, say big developers – and they aren't happy about it

Major developers have accused Apple of secretly buying ads for their apps. While that might sound like an odd complaint, they say that the company’s motive is greed, and the effect is to cost them money. Apple is said to be costing them millions of dollars...
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/15/apple-secretly-buying-ads-apps/?source=Snapzu

Drug Price Negotiation Is A Second-Best Fix. Here's What Will Really Work

As Democrats struggle to bring together 50 votes to pass the Build Back Better Act, a major sticking point with the legislation has emerged. That is, whether it should include provisions changing the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211110/23350447919/drug-price-negotiation-is-second-best-fix-heres-what-will-really-work.shtml?source=Snapzu

Apple launches subscription service for small-business owners

Apple Inc on Wednesday launched a new subscription service aimed at helping small-business owners manage the Apple devices used by their employees. Business Essentials, as Apple is calling the service, is similar to management software that companies such as Microsoft Corp or VMware Inc sell to large business for setting up and keeping secure their fleets of phones, laptops and tablets. But Apple's version is simplified for businesses with between 50 and 500 employees that have either a small IT department or none at all.
Read more: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-launches-subscription-service-for-small-business-owners-311866-2021-11-11?source=Snapzu

The number of U.S. workers quitting their jobs in September was the highest on record.

Employers are still struggling to fill millions of open jobs — and to hold on to the workers they already have. More than 4.4 million workers quit their jobs voluntarily in September, the Labor Department said Friday. That was up from 4.3 million in August and was the most in the two decades the government has been keeping track. Nearly a million quit their jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry alone, reflecting the steep competition for workers there as businesses recover from last year’s pandemic-induced shutdowns.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/business/economy/jobs-labor-openings-quit.html?source=Snapzu

J&J plans to split into two companies, separating consumer products and pharmaceutical businesses

Shares rose by about 3% in premarket trading after the announcement.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/12/jj-shares-jump-after-ceo-says-health-giant-plans-to-break-up-in-wsj-report.html?source=Snapzu