In the news … September 10, 2018

Apple’s Netflix-competitor video service will make more than $4 billion by 2025, Morgan Stanley says

Apple’s video streaming offering will be a multibillion-dollar business for the smartphone maker, according to Morgan Stanley.
The firm reiterated its overweight rating for Apple shares, saying investors are underestimating the strength of its services business
CNBC

New interactive play at Oak Hammock Marsh lets audience solve decades-old Manitoba murder mystery

It’s a real-life Manitoba cold case that you get to solve.
A new theatre production being performed at Oak Hammock Marsh, about 35 kilometres north of Winnipeg, next weekend pledges to take its audience on an immersive, interactive tour through a true crime tale from the 1930s.
CBC

GOOGLE TURNS 20: HOW AN INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE RESHAPED THE WORLD

No technology company is arguably more responsible for shaping the modern internet, and modern life, than Google. The company that started as a novel search engine now manages eight products with more than 1 billion users each. Many of those people use Google software to search the repository of human knowledge, communicate, perform work, consume media, and maneuver the endlessly vast internet in 2018. On Tuesday, September 4th, Google turned 20 years old, marking one of the most staggeringly influential runs for any corporation in history.
THE VERGE

Twitter launches audio-only broadcasting on iOS

Twitter users can now create audio-only broadcasts directly inside of the platform, according to a tweet from Jack Dorsey, the company’s CEO. The feature is available inside both Twitter’s mainline app and Periscope. Users can access the functionality via the ‘Live’ icon that’s present when they go to tweet.
Read more at MobileSyrup.com: Twitter launches audio-only broadcasting on iOS
MOBILESYROP

Google’s bad day in Congress came at the worst possible time

Google had a very bad day before Congress yesterday — or rather, the empty chair with a “Google” sign on it did. Because of a personnel standoff, Google wasn’t present at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, which left Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg time to defend their companies’ records and senators free to rain down criticism on Google. Senators hit the company over its decision to tail off US military contracts, its reported censorship-friendly apps for China, and general failure to respond to legitimate concerns. It was a political turning point in the making, a moment former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is calling “a strategic mistake of virtually incalculable proportions.”
THE VERGE