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Mobile Minutes: Facebook's value rises; Amazon cuts phone prices; Intel CEO innovates; Mobile ads rise in India

Facebook?s market value exceeded $200 billion to put it among the world?s biggest corporations, as investors bet on the company to capitalize on the future of mobile advertising.

SAN FRANCISCO ? Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon?s first smartphone in late June. If only the retailer could persuade those fans ? or anyone, really ? to actually buy the device.

Intel, unlike Apple, has to work through customers to advance the state of the art in mobile devices. The Silicon Valley chip maker says that tack is finally bearing fruit, as illustrated by an unusually compact tablet from Dell.

Mobile advertising volume in India grew the fastest in the world, climbing a record 260% since July 2013, even as the larger Asia-Pacific region where ad impressions delivery rose 70% this year, emerged the fastest-growing region globally.