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Mobile Minutes: JPMorgan and Walmart; Apple hearing aid; Adidas' Reebok effort; Google Home review

JPMorgan plants digital payment flag at Wal-Mart
JPMorgan Chase & Co is putting its "Chase Pay" digital wallet on Wal-Mart's website and in the retailer's Walmart Pay app, hoping to give customers more ways to make purchases without cash, a bank executive said on Thursday.
Read more at Reuters 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-cards-exec-idUSKBN12Y20X

Apple iPhone tech helps reinvent the hearing aid
Special hearing aids that meet Apple's specifications can tap directly into iPhones and iPads to stream audio.
Read more at CNET

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-hearing-aid-tech-deaf-ios-accessibility-cochlear-starkey-bluetooth-watch/

Adidas?s new chief applies the knife in Reebok turnaround effort
Adidas AG will scale back its struggling Reebok unit, highlighting the urgency being applied by new Chief Executive Officer Kasper Rorsted to turn around a business that?s weighed on the sporting-goods maker for years.
Read more at Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-03/adidas-sales-meet-estimates-as-currency-swings-crimp-margins

Google Home review: In catch-up to Echo, but with promise
Ask Google Assistant inside Google Home what it thinks of Amazon Echo's Alexa and you get a gracious reply: ?I like Alexa?s blue lights. Her voice is nice too.?
Read more at USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2016/11/03/google-home-review-still-catching-up-but-plenty-promise/93207780/