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Mobile Minutes: DirecTV and Apple TV; Walmart Pay’s new partners; Fake retail app warning; Social media on election night

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AT&T may be hoping a free Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV stick may be enough to get you to sign up for its upcoming DirecTV Now streaming video service.
Read more at CNET

Wal-Mart Pay in talks with several mobile wallet companies
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is in talks with several mobile wallet companies to offer more payment options in its Wal-Mart Pay app, an executive at the world’s largest retailer said, after signing up JPMorgan Chase & Co last week.
Read more at Reuters

Beware, iPhone users: fake retail apps are surging before holidays
SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of fake retail and product apps have popped up in Apple’s App Store in recent weeks — just in time to deceive holiday shoppers.
Read more at New York Times

For election night, social media will be hangout, support group for voters
SAN FRANCISCO — On election night, voters won’t just curl up on the couch and turn on the TV. In the last hurrah of a contentious election season, they’ll fire up laptops, tablets and smartphones — and sometimes all three — to spend the evening in the company of election-obsessed friends and followers around the country.
Read more at USA Today