Apple has removed what the Chinese government considers to be illegal gambling apps from the App Store. Apple has already nixed roughly 25,000 apps from its Chinese store, Reuters reports, citing state media. “State broadcaster CCTV criticized the U.S. company’s management on Sunday for allowing gambling apps, which are banned in China,” Reuters notes.

Microsoft is readying the launch of “Minecraft: Education Edition” for Apple’s iPad. “The reason Microsoft added iPad support was straightforward: School districts have iPads and want students to be able to learn about STEM and other subjects with Minecraft on Apple’s tablets,” GeekWire writes.

Amazon is planning its first national TV campaign to promote its music-streaming service, Bloomberg reports. The ads -- to feature songs from Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar and Queen -- are “part of a larger effort that will extend to billboards, online video and radio, and to three countries -- the U.S., U.K. and Germany,” it writes.

Investors just pumped $20 million into Threads an ecommerce startups that sell luxury fashion via messaging apps like WeChat and Instagram. “The company says that it will be using the new funding -- led by fashion and millennial-focused fund C Ventures … to expand its business across the board,” TechCrunch writes.

Following an Associated Press investigation, Google has revised the description of its “Location History” setting. The original story, as AP notes, “revealed that several Google apps and websites store user location even if users have turned off Location History.” Despite the clarification, “Google has not changed its location-tracking practice in that regard.”

Aiming for the upcoming holiday season, Google is reportedly readying the release of a smart speaker with video display. “The new product, which is likely to be similar to the Amazon Echo Show, would round out the Google Home range of smart speakers running the artificially intelligent Google Assistant,” Nikkei reports.

Amazon and Microsoft are working together to let Alexa users cue up Cortana on their Echo speakers, CNet writes. Additionally, “You’ll be able to ask Cortana to let Alexa take the wheel on Windows 10 devices, and on the Cortana-powered Invoke smart speaker from Harman Kardon.”

Amazon is looking to potentially buy Landmark Theatres, reports Bloomberg, noting that the deal “would vault the e-commerce giant into the brick-and-mortar cinema industry.” Landmark is currently owned by Wagner/Cuban Cos., which is backed by billionaire Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner.

Japanese regulators are reportedly looking into allegations that Apple improperly pressured Yahoo Japan to shut down a game streaming platform that competed with the iOS App Store, The Verge writes. “Yahoo Japan's Game Plus service allowed people to stream full games made for other platforms and to play HTML5 games on mobile phones, which would have allowed iPhone owners to get games without going through the App Store,” it writes.

Facebook's efforts to curb hate speech in Myanmar appear to be failing. On the social network, a Reuters investigation found more than 1,000 posts, comments, images, and videos attacking the Rohingya people and other minorities in the country. Worse yet, “The anti-Rohingya and anti-Muslim invective analyzed for this article … includes material that’s been up on Facebook for as long as six years,” Reuters writes.