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Mobile Minutes: Uber and Airbnb; LG ditches removable battery; Microsoft'shuge security investment; IPhone manufacturing

In January 2009 the three founders of a little-known website called Airbedandbreakfast.com decided at the last minute to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama. Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk were all in their mid-20s and had no tickets to the festivities, or winter clothes, or even a firm grasp of the week?s schedule. But they saw an opportunity. Their online home-sharing company had limped along for more than a year with little to show for it. Now the eyes of the world would be on the nation?s capital, and they wanted to take advantage.

The high-end phone will not get Amazon's Alexa, but will come packing Google Assistant.

U.S. software firm Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will continue to invest over $1 billion annually on cyber security research and development in the coming years, a senior executive said.

SAN FRANCISCO ? President Trump dreams of gold-plated U.S. companies planting major manufacturing facilities in the American heartland, pumping out smartphones, cars, high-end TVs and other stuff.