Here s what s on the Thursday menu.
Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook yesterday that it was a pleasure to meet President Xi Jinping of China — where, of course, Facebook is banned — and spoke with him entirely in a foreign language. The Chinese president was in Seattle to meet with U.S. tech and business CEOs. (CNNMoney)
Investor Chris Sacca says he will get what I want and Twitter board will name Jack Dorsey CEO.
Go West, young Watson: IBM s artificial-intelligence platform s second headquarters, in San Francisco, will open in 2016. (NYT)
Contact info of Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who has been labeled the most hated man in America after he raised the price of a drug from $13.50 a pill to $750, is posted online.
Contractor or employee: DoorDash and GrubHub are the latest targets of lawsuits over worker classification.
Pandora says it has paid nearly $500 million in artist royalties over the past 12 months. Total is more than $1.5 billion in about 10 years.
ICYMI: E-book sales have slowed sharply. Printed books are not dead. Publishers are stepping up their spending on print distribution and infrastructure. (NYT)
Volkswagen has scrubbed mentions of diesel from its social media accounts.
And for future reference, tech CEOs on TV: Netflix s Reed Hastings, Snapchat s Evan Siegel and Airbnb s Brian Chesky have been booked to appear on Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, during a gathering of CEOs and other executives at Microsoft s main campus Sept. 23, 2015 in Redmond, Washington. (Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images)
