This week’s News Roundup covers three topics:

• Music News – Tidal had its one-year anniversary and announced 3 million subscribers, while SoundCloud launched its paid subscription, SoundCloud Go.
• The FBI/Apple case regarding the San Bernardino shooter finally ended as the FBI announced it had been able to access the phone with help from a third party
• Foxconn finalized its acquisition offer for Sharp.

Our Question of the Week tackled the corporate social responsibility efforts of Apple and Google and what other companies can learn from them. Aaron, who is a business professor who specializes in business ethics, talked us through the history of CSR and how it’s evolved, and then covered three different areas in which Apple and Google have been involved in CSR – corporate giving/philanthropy, environmental initiatives, and what Aaron called core competencies. Aside from calling out the positive things both companies have been doing, we also discussed some criticisms of Apple and Google in this area.

Our third topic was a discussion of Microsoft’s Wednesday morning Build keynote, and especially Microsoft’s new conversations as a platform or bots initiative. We talked about Microsoft’s strategy here as well as some of the challenges it faces. And Jan’s Weekly Pick was a TV show.

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Show notes:

Here are some useful links relating to this week’s episode:

• News Roundup topics:
  • Tidal coverage from Billboard
  • SoundCloud Go launch announcement
  • RIAA report and Jan’s article for Variety on the topic
  • Foxconn/Sharp acquisition coverage from New York Times
• Microsoft Build website and summary article from the Verge
• Jan’s Techpinions article on Microsoft’s Build announcements
• Jan’s Weekly Pick, Madam Secretary, on the CBS website and on Netflix (season 1 only).

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