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Mobile Minutes: Alibaba vs. high profit margins; iPhone 6 sales skyrocket; Line Corp not listing; Death of iPod

Can Alibaba keep growing without sacrificing high profit margins?
Through its successful U.S. listing, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became one of the most valuable technology enterprises in the world.

Early sales of Apple?s new iPhones have lived up to high expectations. The company on Monday said it sold more than 10 million of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models in the first three days they were available in stores. That is higher than the nine million new iPhones it sold last year in their first weekend on sale.

Japanese messaging app operator Line Corp will not list this year, its parent Naver Corp said on Monday, having been readying a much-anticipated flotation that a source said could value it at up to $20 billion.

After 13 years, the iPod Classic is dead. Google?s Tony Fadell tells us what killed the iPod, and why we shouldn?t be bummed about it.