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Mobile Minutes: Regulators eye sponsored data; Snapchat?s data deals; Apple names COO; Silicon Valley cools

Federal regulators have asked AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile to meet with them to discuss a growing and controversial business tactic: Offering Americans access to certain online services, such as Netflix or Spotify, without those services eating away at their monthly data caps.

Would you rather send a Snapchat of yourself waving a virtual light saber or wiggling an animated, Kim Kardashian-size derriere?

Apple Inc promoted longtime executive Jeff Williams to the role of chief operating officer, reinstating the title previously held by Chief Executive Tim Cook, as part of a series of changes to the company's leadership team.

Silicon Valley is cooling, not crashing. Valuations are falling. The era of cheap money is over.