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Mobile Minutes: Amazon product searches; Twitter's buyout price; Facebook and WhatsApp data; Snapchat's milestone

More than 50pc of shoppers turn first to Amazon in product search
More than half of U.S. online consumers begin their product searches on Amazon.com Inc.?s website or mobile app, a survey found.
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Twitter?s final buyout price might be lower than you think
With an increasing number of rumored suitors for Twitter, analysts who follow the company started to offer estimates for a possible purchase price.
Read more on Fortune

Facebook to appeal German order on WhatsApp data
Facebook said it would appeal against an order by a German privacy regulator on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp and to delete all data that has already been forwarded to it.
Read more on Reuters

Snapchat passes 60 million daily users in the U.S. and Canada
Snapchat, the messaging app that originally took off as a tool for sending disappearing photos, now has more than 60 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada ? about a third of Facebook?s 175 million daily users in the same region.
Read more on Forbes