An Apple event focused on services, a former Apple Vice President charged with insider trading, the larger gaming industry is having issues, and why your GPS device might have issues on April 6th of this year.
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Apple Plans News Event For March 25 (BuzzFeed News)
Publishers Chafe at Apple’s Terms for Subscription News Service (WSJ)
The former Apple lawyer who was supposed to keep employees from insider trading has been charged with insider trading (CNBC)
Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills (The Verge)
Activision Blizzard cuts hundreds of jobs despite ‘record revenue’ year (Polygon)
Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019 (The Register)
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