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Mobile Minutes: YouTube Connect; Starbucks ramps up loyalty; Pebble layoffs; Business tablets

Google reportedly is building a mobile live-streaming app similar to Twitter?s Periscope and Facebook?s Live feature.

Starbucks Corp. on Wednesday said customers using its new branded prepaid Visa cards would be able to earn points for free coffee and other perks. 

Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its employees ? that's 40 pink slips ? taking it down to just 80 people. It seems indicative of the smartwatch market's terrible state.

Tablets may never again be the consumer sensation they once were, but they are finding new life among professionals.