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Mobile Minutes: Google promotes mobile future; Apple Watch's apps; Twitter's Chinese foothold; Chelsea FC app

Google prepares algorithm change; website owners must migrate to mobile
As much as Apple has guided the entire tech industry by its advocacy or abandonment of various software and hardware technologies over the years, Google envisions a mobile future where every website on the planet works equally well on a cellphone, tablet or desktop.
Read more on Silicon Valley Business Journal

Apple Watch success will hinge on apps
SAN FRANCISCO ? The value of a wristwatch is typically defined by its materials, design, features and brand. For the new Apple Watch, all those factors will apply, but so will something else: apps.
Read more on New York Times

Twitter opens Hong Kong office, gains China foothold
Twitter Inc. has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on Tuesday.
Read more on Reuters

Chelsea FC partners with mobile app centered around soccer conversations
INPLAY wants to be the WhatsApp for football (or as Americans call it, soccer) fans around the world.
Read more on Forbes