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Mobile Minutes: Email’s rough year; Google and CBS deal; apps for dating; T-Mobile fined $48M

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Whoever wins the White House, this year’s big loser is email
Every four years, pundits race to anoint this or that newfangled tech trend as the next disruptive force to forever alter the mechanics of American democracy. The 2016 campaign has already been called the Snapchat election, the Periscope election, the Meerkat election, the Twitter election, the Facebook election and the meme election. (If there were a vomit emoji, I’d insert one here. And then we’d have the emoji election.)
Read more at the New York Times

Google signs up CBS for Internet TV service: sources
Alphabet Inc unit Google has reached an agreement with CBS Corp to carry the network on its web TV service and is in talks with 21st Century Fox and Viacom Inc  to distribute its channels, three sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Read more at Reuters

T-Mobile to pay $48M for misleading unlimited data plan
T-Mobile has agreed to a $48 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission for misleading consumers about its “unlimited” data plan.
Read more at CNET

These apps are perfecting the art of getting you to pay for dates
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love,” William Shakespeare argued in a 16th century love story. Never have those sights been more common than 417 years later, when visions of potential adoration can be swiped at breakneck speed on any smartphone.
Read more at Bloomberg