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Mobile Minutes: Mobile World Congress lands in US; InMobi?s $4M fine; Samsung Pay; Vine on monetization

Mobile World Congress, arguably the most important mobile tech trade show in the world, is coming to the U.S. Trade groups GSMA and CTIA are joining forces to bring a smaller version of the event to the U.S. in 2017.

The Federal Trade Commission came down hard on a mobile ad firm on Wednesday after ruling that the business deceptively tracked hundreds of millions of consumers, including children.

Smartphone leader Samsung Electronics has for years been a spectator as Apple built a services "ecosystem" supporting its products. But now, as the two develop the market for mobile payments, the Korean tech giant is taking the fight to its U.S. archrival.

When Vine debuted back in early 2013, it was the hot new thing for creating and sharing short videos. Since then, we?ve seen short-form pop up everywhere, criticism about creators? ability to monetize on the Twitter-owned platform and shiny new services like Snapchat steal some of Vine?s spotlight.