PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - Feb 2

Reuters
·1 min read

Feb 2 (Reuters) - 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.

- Bustle Digital Group, which publishes Gawker, said on Wednesday that it would shutter the recently revived gossip website and cut about 8 percent of the company's total staff.

- A federal judge has rejected the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop Meta Platforms Inc from buying virtual reality start-up Within.

- On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission accused healthcare firm GoodRx Holdings of sharing sensitive personal data on millions of users' prescription medications and illnesses with companies like Facebook and Google without authorization.

- Adani Enterprises, the flagship of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, called off its $2.5 billion share sale on Wednesday, citing "market volatility," a blow to the company and its billionaire founder, Gautam Adani, as it struggles to overcome a plunge in value set off by fraud allegations made by Hindenburg Research last week. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)