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Mobile Minutes: QuizUp heads to NBC; Mobile ads? data usage; Google, Microsoft make nice; Amazon Dash grows

A mobile app is making the leap to television and bringing smartphone users with it.

Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising?

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to end their long-running patent feud over smartphones and video game systems, dropping about 20 lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany.

Amazon.com Inc.?s Dash buttons, which let shoppers instantly order household and grocery items, are catching on with shoppers a few months after their introduction, based on early estimates.