Interrupting American’s last change to pay their 2017 taxes, the IRS’s Website was down for much of the day on Tuesday. “The IRS still expects Americans to pay their taxes but U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says extensions will be granted to those impacted when the site is up again,” The Associated Press reports.

Apple plans to integrate magazine app Texture into Apple News and launch a premium subscription offering, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. The move is "part of a broader push by the iPhone maker to generate more revenue from online content and services,” it writes. Apple just recently agreed to buy Texture.

Mixcloud just raised about $11.5 million in a round led by WndrCo, TechCrunch reports. For about 10 years, the London startup -- which offers an audio streaming platform designed for long-form content -- apparently existed without outside funding. “As part of the investment, WndrCo partners Ann Daly (former president of DreamWorks Animation) and Anthony Saleh (an investor and artist manager of hiphop stars Nas and Future) have joined the Mixcloud board,” TechCrunch writes.

Goldman Sachs just bought personal-finance app Clarity Money, The Wall Street Journal reports. The financial giant paid a “high eight-figure sum” for the app, sources tell The Journal. “Adam Dell -- brother of Michael Dell, the personal-computer pioneer -- founded Clarity Money and will join Goldman as a partner,” it notes.  

Amazon’s Business unit has reportedly shelved plans to sell and distribute pharmaceuticals. “Instead, the company is focused on selling less sensitive medical supplies to hospitals and smaller clinics through Amazon Business,” CNBC reports, citing sources. Still, “It has found that business to be more challenging than expected.”

Among 228 groups that were found to be running division Facebook ads during the 2016 election, 122 were “suspicious,” Wired reports, citing research from a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Of those so-called ‘suspicious’ advertisers, one in six turned out to be associated with [Russia’s own] Internet Research Agency,” it writes, citing data that has since been provided by Congress.  

Since the Cambridge Analytica controversy exploded, the vast majority of Facebook users have left their privacy setting unchanged. That’s according to a top advertising executive for the global social-media platform, The Wall Street Journal reports. As such, “Facebook Inc. doesn’t expect the recent uproar over its users’ digital privacy to affect sales significantly,” it writes.

Yahoo Japan is buying a minority stake in a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange -- thus “becoming the latest major Japanese financial services provider to shrug off security concerns and join the digital money industry,” CNBC reports. “Yahoo Japan … said in a statement it would buy through a subsidiary a 40 percent stake in BitARG Exchange Tokyo.”

Facebook is developing ad tools that can tell when customers are questioning their loyalty to specific brands, The Intercept reports. “Instead of merely offering advertisers the ability to target people based on demographics and consumer preferences, Facebook instead offers the ability to target them based on how they will behave, what they will buy, and what they will think,” it writes. “These capabilities are the fruits of a self-improving, artificial intelligence-powered prediction engine.” < /a>

Apple’s HomePod smart speaker isn’t selling as well as expected. “At first, it looked like the HomePod might be a hit,” Bloomberg reports. “Pre-orders were strong, and in the last week of January the device grabbed about a third of the U.S. smart speaker market in unit sales,” it writes, citing data from Slice Intelligence.” But by the time HomePods arrived in stores, sales were tanking.”