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Mobile Minutes: Mastering mobile ads; Apple unclear on Beats plans; Google+ eases requirements; New app for the blind

When it comes to advertising on mobile devices, banner ads and pop-ups are the norm. But for Boston-based company SessionM, it's out with the old and in with the new.

When Apple agreed in May to pay $3 billion for Beats, it acquired not only a successful headphone line but also a fledgling online music service, a move that many analysts interpreted as a move into the fast-growing world of streaming music.

Sometime in early September, Google stopped requiring people to create a Google+ profile while signing up for other accounts such as Gmail. 

The new app that allows blind people to listen to an audio readback of printed text is receiving rave reviews after its first day of availability and is being heralded as a life-changer by many people.