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Mobile Minutes: Yelp settles suit; Bango, Amazon win app deal; Apple hires Chinese data manager; Visa vs. Apple Pay

Yelp Inc. (YELP), the online customer-review service, said it paid $450,000 to settle a U.S. regulator?s lawsuit accusing it of collecting names and e-mail addresses from children as young as 9 without the consent of their parents.

Mobile payments technology firm Bango, based in Cambridge UK, has joined forces with Amazon to clinch a major piece of business in Germany.

Apple Inc is hiring a head of law enforcement in Beijing to deal with user data requests from China's government, according to a public job listing, after it last month began storing private data on Chinese soil for the first time.

Thursday morning Visa V +0.36% announced that it is working with J.P. Morgan Securities to explore options for exiting its 5.5% stake in Monitise , an early leader in mobile payments.