Apple has reportedly agreed to help the Indian government develop an anti-spam mobile application for its iOS platform. “The U.S. tech giant has been locked in a tussle with India’s telecoms regulator for more than a year,” Reuters reports. “Officials complained Apple dragged its feet on advising the government how to develop an app that would allow iPhone users to report unsolicited marketing texts or calls as spam.”

Amazon has reportedly ditched plans to launch an online streaming service bundling popular broadcast and cable networks, because, as sources tell Reuters, “it believes it cannot make enough money on such a service.” Additionally, “The world’s largest online retailer has also been unable to convince key broadcast and basic cable networks to break with decades-old business models and join its a la carte Amazon Channels service.”

Among other new tools, Pinterest is adding a “Lens Your Look” feature so users can add a photo to any text query. “With this feature, you can, for example, pair a photo of a favorite jacket with the search term ‘autumn fashion’ to come up with new outfit ideas, or combine the photo of a popular celebrity with search term ‘date night’ to locate pins with similar outfits,” Venture Beat reports.

YouTube users can now buy Ticketmaster tickets right under artists’ music videos, per an expanded partnership between the two companies. “Ticketmaster has worked with the video platform to add tour dates below official music videos for major artists, with the closest date to your location listed first,” The Verge points out. “With music videos racking up billions of views on YouTube, Ticketmaster is likely gaining its biggest audience ever with this integration.”

Apple Watch and other “wearables” can accurately detect some common health conditions like hypertension and sleep apnea, according to a study from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). “This new study shows the Watch can detect sleep apnea with a 90 percent accuracy and hypertension with an 82 percent accuracy,” TechCrunch notes.

Poshmark just raised $87.5 million to scale its online fashion marketplace. “Founded in 2011, the Redwood City, California-based startup has created what it calls a ‘social marketplace for fashion’ where anyone can buy, sell, and share their style with others. Think eBay meets Instagram, but for fashion,” Venture Beat reports. Temasek led the round.

Amazon is reportedly developing a free, ad-supported version of its Prime streaming video service. “The company is talking with TV networks, movie studios and other media companies about providing programming to the service,” Ad Age reports, citing sources. “A version paid for by advertisers instead of subscribers could provide a new foothold in streaming video for marketers, whose opportunities to run commercials are eroding as audiences drift away from traditional TV and toward ad-free services like Netflix and Prime.”

Facebook is shuttering the Messenger Day brand, and merging the app’s stories feature with Facebook Stories. “Now, just called ‘Stories,’ 24-hour ephemeral posts in either Facebook or Messenger will appear in both apps, and viewing will be synced too so you won’t see a Story as unviewed in one app if you already watched it in the other,” TechCrunch reports.

Amazon just acquired the rights for a multiseason adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” on Prime Video. “Set in Middle Earth, the adaptation produced by Amazon Studios will explore new storylines preceding Tolkien’s ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’” GeekWire reports. “The deal includes a potential additional spin-off series.”

Facebook is ill-equipped to handle its massive market position in Asia, according to Foreign Policy’s Christina Larson. “It’s become clear that the attitudes and policies the Menlo Park-based company adopted when it was primarily a U.S. social network are inadequate, or even perilous, when applied in authoritarian states, fragile democracies, or nations with deep ethnic divisions,” she writes.