Apple (AAPL) is one of the latest tech names to voice disapproval of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), joining tech heavyweights Netflix (NFLX), Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and Alphabet (GOOGL). “We don’t support the current CISA proposal,” said Apple in a statement acquired by the Washington Post. “The trust of our customers means everything to us, and we don’t believe security should come at the expense of their privacy.”
Google is the latest tech enterprise to roll out a membership-fee service for ad-free streaming content. It includes videos, music and new original series and movies from popular YouTube artists including Swedish comedian PewDiePie. Google, a unit of Alphabet (GOOGL), announced Wednesday that it would roll out its $9.99 a month YouTube Red on Oct. 28 in advance of a global launch, starting with a one-month free trial. The service is a replacement
Google is buying a minority stake in a Chinese artificial-intelligence development company as part of a $75 million fundraising round. It’s the search leader’s first investment since largely bowing out of the country in 2010 over censorship concerns. Google, the largest subsidiary of the tech firm newly renamed Alphabet (GOOGL), is leading a round of funding for Mobvoi, which operates a Chinese-language voice-activated search engine, according to