In Europe, Google plans to begin charging a licensing fee for the PlayStore and other Google apps. “The changes come in response to a July ruling by the European Commission, which fined the company $5 billion for antitrust violations and ordered it to stop "illegally tying" Chrome and search apps to Android,” The Verge reports.

The Wall Street Journal spends time with Kris Goldsmith, an Army veterans who catalogues Facebook pages with suspected ties to the Russian and Iranian governments. “Goldsmith has become the cybersleuth for the Vietnam Veterans of America, hunting fake Facebook pages that sow discord and often have roots overseas,” it writes.

Samsung just bought Zhilabs -- a network analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to monitor carriers’ network performance and data traffic across services. “Barcelona-based Zhilabs offers a flagship product called CustomAir ... that helps carriers drill down into the network performance experience at the individual subscriber level,” VentureBeat reports.

Among other privacy upgrades, Apple just launched a portal where consumers can see what the company knows about them. “The privacy portal was already tested in the European Union in May, coinciding with the EU's launch of restrictive privacy legislation called the General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR),” CNBC notes.

Adobe just debuted Project Aero -- a tool for building AR experiences. "The 'Project' moniker is Adobe’s way of signifying that these are still early-stage products and not quite ready for prime time yet," TechCrunch writes. "Over time, though, they typically become fully named parts of the Creative Cloud suite."

Millions of Americans still live without broadband Internet access, The Columbia Journalism Review reports. “Despite bipartisan support on the issue, the crisis of America’s digital divide has failed to become a headline grabber or garner any real action from politicians as midterms approach,” it writes. “This information disparity undermines our democracy, hampers how we do journalism, and shapes how Americans interact with the news.”

Dan Abrams, ABC chief legal analyst and Mediaite and Law & Crime TV founder, just launched a streaming network for Christian sermons. “Abrams, who has seen great success with his media properties in recent years under Abrams Media, launched Ambo, named for a historic synonym for a pulpit, from a studio in New York,” The Hill reports.

CBS News is adding live morning programming to CBSN, its ad-supported streaming news service. “CBSN’s lead co-anchors Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers will deliver the top domestic and international stories of the moment, as well as detail what’s ahead in the news cycle that day,” TVNewser reports.

Facebook is admitting that a glitch led to the deletion of some users’ Live videos when they tried to post them to their Story and News Feed, TechCrunch reports. “Facebook wouldn’t say how many users or livestreams were impacted, but told the bug was intermittent and affected a minority of all Live videos,” it writes. “It’s since patched the bug and restored some of the videos.”

Making it the top-grossing non-game mobile app in the world, Netflix banked about $243.7 million in the third quarter of the year. That's according to new estimates from Sensor Tower, as reported by Variety. “That’s up about 90% year over year, from Netflix’s gross of approximately $128.4 million worldwide,” Variety notes.