Apple has set a budget of roughly $1 billion to procure and produce original content over the next year—a sign of how serious the iPhone maker is about making a splash in Hollywood.
Cook said he disagrees with the president’s “moral equivalence” between white supremacists and anti-racist protestors and pledges $2 million in donations to fight hate.
Apple and PayPal have started to pull payments support from websites selling white nationalist and Nazi apparel following this weekend’s events in Charlottesville.
Movie studios are considering whether to ignore the objections of cinema chains and forge ahead with a plan to offer digital rentals of films mere weeks after they appear in theaters, according to people familiar with the matter.