Chinese authorities will question Apple over live-streaming video software available on the company’s app store, amid an increasingly hostile business environment for foreign firms in the world’s second largest economy.Police, cyberspace administration and cultural law enforcement team will jointly summon Apple, state news agency Xinhua reported, as part of a wider crackdown on live-streaming video services.The three Chinese government agencies planned to tell Apple to “tighten up checks” on software offered on its app store. Law enforcement officers had already met with Apple representatives over live-streaming services, Xinhua reported, but did not provide details of the meetings. The real secret of Chinese internet censorship? DistractionJohn Naughton Read moreThe inquiry appears to be focused on third-party apps available for download through Apple’s online marketplace. The company did not respond to requests for comment.China operates the world’s largest internet censorship regime, blocking a host of foreign websites including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but the authorities have struggled to control an explosion in popularity of live-streaming video apps.

The COALITION FOR BETTER Ads, a consortium of ad, publishing, and tech companies, wants to save the advertising industry—by killing it. Or at least parts of it. Companies in the coalition will discuss, among other idea, pre-installation of a selective ad-blocker on web browsers as a means to effectively purge the internet of the most intrusive types of ads, such as those that automatically play sound, take-up too much of your screen, or force you to wait a certain amount of time before you can dismiss them.The idea was first reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, whoch suggested that ad-blockers would be built into Google’s Chrome web browser and turned on by default.“We do not comment on rumor or speculation,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “We’ve been working closely with the Coalition for Better Ads and industry trades to explore a multitude of ways Google and other members of the Coalition could support the Better Ads Standards.”