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Mobile Minutes: Sponsored Facebook messages; IoT security; Oracle cloud investment; Political ads

Facebook is letting brands try to get chummier with you by expanding the capabilities of chatbots in Messenger.

Recent cyber attacks harnessing everyday devices such as cameras, video recorders, printers, routers and speakers are a wake-up call to the hidden dangers of the Internet of Things.

Eduardo Frias, chief information officer at Beachbody LLC, recently traveled to San Francisco to hear a pitch from Oracle Corp.?s top brass.

You may be a reliable Democratic voter in a solid-blue city. Maybe you have a graduate degree; maybe you?re a member of an ethnic or religious minority; maybe you are a woman.