Amid mobile’s rise, blogger and Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans is starting to get a little nervous about the implications of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Adroid succeeding the “neutral Web browser” as the primary platform for Internet services. “On mobile … it’s the operating system itself that's the internet services platform, far more than the browser, and the platform is not neutral.”   

Line is adding end-to-end encryption to its mobile messaging service. “The company said today that a new security feature, dubbed ‘Letter Sealing,’ will bring encryption to messages and features on the service, starting with one-on-one chats and the service’s location-sharing feature, on its mobile and desktop apps,” TechCrunch reports.  

On the heels of a big funding found, Medium is showing off a newly designed logo and bunch of new features. The changes “include revamped apps, the inclusion of ‘mentions’ to tag other Medium users in posts, and an API that lets users write in third-party apps and then publish to Medium,” Business Insider reports.  

Real-time analytics firm Metamarkets announced yesterday it is analyzing over 100 billion events daily. Its clients, including Linkedin, Twitter and Millennial Media, analyzed more than 12 trillion new events in Q3. "As mobile programmatic grows, there's been a dramatic increase in associated data volumes," said Janae McDonough, vice president, MoPub at Twitter. "In Q2 alone, our marketplace processed 264 billion monthly ad requests -- 55% more than the monthly average for Q4 2014."

Sure to alarm privacy advocates, Verizon is quietly preparing to share the information it has on individual cellphone users with AOL’s ad network. “That means AOL’s ad network will be able to match millions of Internet users to their real-world details gathered by Verizon, including – ‘your gender, age range and interests,’” ProPublica reports.  

Its Galaxy smartphones must be selling well, because Samsung expects its third-quarter operating profit to beat market forecasts. The South Korean technology giant actually attributes the strong growth to robust semiconductor sales. Still, “It forecasts that operating profit jumped nearly 80% from a year ago to ($6.29 billion),” BBC New reports.  

Google Creative Lab is rolling out live wallpaper for users’ Android phones, which show a phone’s battery life, WiFi strength, and incoming notifications. “Based on my initial testing, it seems that the wallpaper randomly switches between these three indicators,” 9To5Google’s Stephen Hall writes. “Locking and unlocking your phone, as well as opening and closing apps, will rotate between them.”  

How smart can smartphones get? Determined to find out, Apple just bought Perceptio -- a startup that specializes in technology for companies that want to run advanced artificial intelligence systems on smartphones. On its own, “Perceptio’s goals were to develop techniques to run AI image-classification systems on smartphones, without having to draw from large external repositories of data,” Bloomberg Businessweek reports.  

Dow Jones is readying a news app with a laser focus on the city of London. The plan is “to steal the domestic readership of the Financial Times,” The Guardian suggests. “The mobile-only app will feature financial stories from the Times newspaper, which is part of the same News UK stable as Dow Jones, as well as the Journal and Financial News.”  

There are now 110 million devices running Windows 10, Microsoft announced this week. “And in a boost to its ambition to get more universal apps on its platform that work across different Microsoft platforms, [EVP of Windows and Devices Group Terry Myerson] said that new universal for Windows 10 will include universal apps for Facebook, its Messenger service and Instagram,” TechCrunch reports.