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Mobile Minutes: Twitter?s new character limit; Apple production cut expected; Ford, Amazon partnership; Mobile chatting

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Apple Inc is expected to cut production of its latest iPhone models by about 30 percent in the January-March quarter, the Nikkei reported.

Ford announced Monday at the 2016Consumer Electronics Show that it is working with Amazon and Internet of Things platform Wink toward granting Ford owners unprecedented access to their connected-home devices from their cars, and vice versa.

In 2011, Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched a smartphone app so people could send each other free text messages. Five years later, WeChat?s hundreds of millions of users in China tap the service to send money to friends, buy shoes and even book doctors? appointments.