Over the next year, Apple is reportedly ready to spend about $1 billion to produce and buy original content. With all that green, “Apple could acquire and produce as many as 10 television shows,” The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. “Combined with the company’s marketing clout and global reach, that immediately makes Apple a considerable competitor in a crowded market,” The Wall Street Journal writes.

Amid growing disgust with the White House’s weak censure of Neo-Nazi groups, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is the latest business executive to announce his departure from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council. “In a blog post, Krzanich said that the decline in American manufacturing remains a serious issue, but said that ‘politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base,’” Axios notes.

Amazon is testing an ‘Instant Pickup’ program, which, as Mashable explains, “provides what’s essentially the experience of a convenience store, but without the lines or, you know, human interaction. The new Prime benefit is available now at a handful of the company's pickup lockers near college campuses." Amazon is now in the process of expanding the program to various businesses nationwide.

Following the lead of other social networks, Facebook is disabling pages associated with neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. “The company said today that links to the post on the Daily Stormer website violated its community standards and would be removed automatically unless the post included a caption condemning the article or the publication, a haven for Nazis and white supremacists,” The Verge reports.

Facebook is expanding Marketplace to 17 additional countries, including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, and France. Regarding Marketplace, Engadget notes: “It’s still a young feature … so you might not always find what you need there and will probably still have to regularly visit its competitors.”

Mic considers “plandids” -- pictures featuring people posing craftily, which appear to be overtaking social platforms, Instagram especially. “Plandids, or planned candids, have become so ubiquitous that it’s hard to avoid coming across one when scrolling through your feed,” it writes. “Everyone -- from mommy bloggers, to celebs, to fashionistas to sorority girls -- has jumped on the plandid bandwagon.”

Facebook is discontinuing its Groups app, TechCrunch reports. “Facebook said it believed the team could do more for the community by working on improvements to Groups within the main Facebook app,” it writes, citing a statement from the social giant. “The Facebook Groups app had grown to be very buggy in recent months, often to the point of becoming unusable.”

Google has reportedly picked up Senosis Health -- a startup that specializes in “turning smartphones into monitoring devices that collect health metrics to diagnose pulmonary function, hemoglobin counts and other critical health information,” GeekWire reports. “The company’s apps -- including SpiroSmart and SpiroCall, HemaApp and OsteoApp -- were under review by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year.”

Google Play and other Android app stores have seen a spike in spyware apps, which, as ZDNet point outs, “have the capability to monitor almost every action on an infected device.” This particular malware, named SonicSpy, “can silently record calls and audio, take photos, make calls, send text messages to numbers specified by the attackers, and monitor calls logs, contacts, and information about wi-fi access points,” ZDNet notes.

With its future at stake, streaming music firm SoundCloud is demanding that existing shareholders accept or reject a reorganization proposal by the end of the week. “If accepted, then the new investment -- $169.5 million at a $150 million pre-money enterprise valuation -- also closes [Friday]," Axios reports. “If rejected, then CEO Alexander Ljung suggests the company would not be able ‘to continue as a going concern.’