Here s what s on the Friday menu.
The New York Times is reporting that Apple had asked the FBI to keep its request for a tool to unlock the San Bernardino killer s iPhone under seal. When the FBI went public with its request, Apple went public with its response.
Meanwhile, Apple to get more time to submit a court response to the order to unlock the iPhone, according to Bloomberg, which cites unidentified sources. Original deadline was Tuesday, but it s now Friday, the report says.
New JPMorgan study confirms: Gig economy has a lot of workers but not a lot of full-time jobs. (WSJ)
Speaking of the gig economy, Lyft has asked a U.S. judge to prevent Uber from asking for more confidential information as part of a case about a data breach that affected 50,000 Uber drivers.
Judge in Berlin says he s leaning toward rejecting a legal complaint filed by German publishers who say Google should pay them for showing links to their articles online.
Google and overseas taxes: It moved about 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) from the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2014. Its Dutch tax bill was 2.8 million euros.
In Japan, Twitter (35 million) has more users than Facebook (25 million). (WSJ)
In case you ve missed all the hoopla, a tech entrepreneur wrote an open letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and SFPD chief Ed Suhr asking them to do something about the city s homeless problem, saying I shouldn t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day. Justin Keller got some backlash, and later apologized for using the word riff raff to refer to the homeless.
Photo: Lyft s signature mustache (Courtesy of Lyft)
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