PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - March 19

March 19 (Reuters) - The 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.

- Alphabet GOOGL.O will buy fast-growing startup Wiz for about $32 billion in its biggest deal, as it doubles down on cybersecurity to sharpen its edge in the cloud-computing race against Amazon.com and Microsoft.

- Tesla TSLA.O received the first in a series of approvals from California required for the electric car maker to eventually launch a promised robotaxi service in the state, according to California Public Utilities Commission, state regulator.

- A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. military from enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order barring transgender people from military service while a lawsuit by 20 current and would-be service members challenging the measure goes forward.

- Trump fired two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.