• Apple reported more than $600 million in costs related to a bevy of small deals in its latest fiscal year. Go back a decade, and the number of deals caught in the F.T.C.’s net will number in the hundreds. As a result, it changed its behavior in “pre-emptive and defensive ways,” the NYT’s Mike Isaac wrote at the time. Oh, the irony: At the end of the F.T.C.’s press release, the agency asks readers to like its page on Facebook. Chinese officials reported the lowest number of new cases since the end of last month, and suggested that the outbreak may end by April.

Source: New York Times February 12, 2020 11:56 UTC