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Mobile Minutes: Amazon hiring surge; Apple's antitrust lawsuit; Food stamps at Amazon; Connected kitchens

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Jan. 13, 2017
The boost in hiring over the next 18 months will increase the e-commerce giant's US workforce to 280,000 positions.

iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple Inc over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store, leading to higher prices, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.

For years, Amazon.com Inc. has targeted shoppers who can afford a $99 Prime subscription. The announcement last week that the company will deliver groceries to food-stamp recipients shows Amazon also wants to appeal to lower-income shoppers, traditionally Wal-Mart?s bailiwick. Read more at Bloomberg

More appliance manufacturers than ever before are advertising "smart" connectivity, promising convenience features like remote control, automatic supply replenishment, or intelligent energy consumption. Each company also has its own word-soup of apps, standards, modules, hubs, and brands that might make the appliance smarter, but can certainly make a layman feel dumb. We're here to demystify all that.