There’s a lot happening in the world of Apple news this week. Following are the hottest articles for the week of Feb. 5-10.
Competition seems to be heating up among the two of the biggest music streaming services: Apple Music and Spotify. Citing unnamed”people in the record business,” the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has been adding 5% to its U.S. subscriber base every month versus “just” 2% for Spotify.
Apple, Cisco, Aon and Allianz have announced a new cyber risk management solution for businesses, comprised of cyber resilience evaluation services from Aon, secure technology from Cisco and Apple, and options for enhanced cyber insurance coverage from Allianz.
The New York Police Department has begun scrapping 36,000 smartphones it gave police officers over the past two years because they’re already obsolete and can’t be upgraded, and are turning to iPhones.
Apple Watch shipments beat expectations, topping 18 million in 2017, up by more than 54% from 2016, according to the Canalys research group.
The European Commission — an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU — says it’s accepted a request from Austria, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden to assess under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Shazam by Apple.
Apple will begin accepting Alipay, a third-party mobile and online payment platform, at its local Chinese stores. The tech giant will accept Alipay payment across its 41 brick-and-mortar retail stores in China.
Apple has picked up a new TV show called Little America, a half-hour anthology series written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon (pictured), the duo behind the hit movie, The Big Sick. Lee Eisenberg, who produced the comedy series SMILF will serve as showrunner.
