A trimmer Happy Meal; Thiel leaving Bay Area; a crypto Atari

A Happy Meal featuring non-fat chocolate milk and a cheeseburger with fries, are arranged for a photo at a McDonald's restaurant in Brandon, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. McDonald’s will soon banish cheeseburgers and chocolate milk from its Happy Meal menu. Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal, but the fast-food company said that not listing them will reduce how often they're ordered. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) less A Happy Meal featuring non-fat chocolate milk and a cheeseburger with fries, are arranged for a photo at a McDonald's restaurant in Brandon, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. McDonald’s will soon banish ... more Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, Associated Press Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, Associated Press Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close A trimmer Happy Meal; Thiel leaving Bay Area; a crypto Atari 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

Happy Meal trimming down

McDonald’s is taking cheeseburgers and chocolate milk off its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants. Diners can still ask for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk, but the company said that not listing them will reduce how often they’re ordered. Since it removed soda from the Happy Meal menu four years ago, orders for it with Happy Meals have fallen 14 percent. Hamburgers and Chicken McNuggets will be the main entrees on the Happy Meal menu.

Bye, Bay Area — and maybe Facebook

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Prominent Silicon Valley conservative Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and current Facebook board member, plans to move his home and personal investment firm to Los Angeles because he’s disaffected with what he sees as the left-leaning politics of the Bay Area, a person familiar with his plans said Thursday. Thiel, who has drawn heavy criticism from tech-industry peers for his support of President Trump, also has discussed with people close to him the possibility of resigning from Facebook’s board.

Gobbling up cryptocoins

Forget the joystick. Atari — best known for 1980s video games “Pac-Man” and “Space Invaders” — is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Shares in the Paris company have soared more than 60 percent since it gave details of its crypto push on Feb. 8, after mentioning some plans in December. Atari is taking a stake in a company that’s building a blockchain digital entertainment service and, as part of that agreement, it will create a digital currency called Atari Token.

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