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Mobile Minutes: BlackBerry, Samsung join for security; WeChat struggles; Nokia plans return; Secret vs. Whisper

BlackBerry partners with Samsung on mobile security
BlackBerry has made a deal with Samsung that will offer BlackBerry's mobile security on Samsung's Android-powered devices.
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WeChat struggles to lure new users amid WhatsApp rivalry
The messaging application, which took China by storm, posted its slowest active user growth on record as it struggles to attract new customers in Western countries. Shenzhen-based Tencent is cutting back on marketing and sales spending to focus overseas expansion on more ?hospitable? markets, Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell said without offering specifics.
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Nokia says vanishing consumer brand may return
Don't call it a comeback yet. But Nokia is thinking about how to revive its brand name in consumer markets just months after selling off its former flagship mobile phones business to Microsoft for more than $7 billion.
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Anonymous messaging app Secret distances itself from Whisper
The anonymous messaging app war is on. A co-founder of Secret, an app that lets users send public messages anonymously, tried to distance the app from rival Whisper, which last month appeared to have been caught compromising its users? privacy. The Guardian, a U.K. newspaper, reported that Whisper was secretly tracking its users.
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