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Mobile Minutes: Apple search; Mobile VR heats up; Amazon Studios? theatrical push; The Atlantic and Google Amp

Apple Inc. has constructed a secret team to explore changes to the App Store, including a new strategy for charging developers to have their apps more prominently displayed, according to people familiar with the plans.

Huawei Technology has entered the mobile virtual reality competition. 

Amazon may be known to the world as the digital market for every kind of consumer good and, increasingly, for streamed entertainment, but Amazon Studios made it crystal clear Thursday that it also intends to be known as the company that creates high-quality films, not just for the home, but for movie theaters.

The Atlantic believes it may have found a way to amp up mobile advertising.