Facebook earnings show that desktop ads — and Google — may soon become irrelevant | VentureBeat - With the social network’s monthly active userbase up 45 percent year over year, ad money from mobile added up to around 49 percent of all ad revenue ($1.8 billion) from this quarter.
UnitedHealth Unit Tapped to Repair Health-Law Website - Jennifer Corbett Dooren - News - AllThingsD - The Obama administration said Friday it has named a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. to oversee repairs to its troubled health-insurance website and for the first time gave a specific estimate — the end of November — for when the site would be fixed.
Samsung Fined Over HTC Smear Campaign - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD - On Thursday, the agency levied a $341,037 fine against Samsung’s Taiwanese subsidiary for hiring students to post fake online reviews criticizing HTC devices.
Apple's updated 15" MacBook Pro features Intel Crystalwell graphics, starts at $1999 - Along with the $200 price drop, which extends down to the new 13-inch model, Apple's latest flagship notebook features faster PCIe flash, as well as an optional GeForce GT 750M graphics processor.
YouTube Becoming a Mobile First Company - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
Larry Page announced that 40 percent of YouTube’s traffic was coming from mobile devices. That’s up from 25 percent a year ago, and six percent in 2011."
Voxeljet: From 3D printed James Bond cars to a wildly successful IPO | VentureBeat - For the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, Propshop Modelmakers used Voxeljet’s 3D printers to create three full-scaled replicas of the ultra-rare Aston Martin DB5. The cars, which are ultimately destroyed in the film, are almost indistinguishable from the original, thanks in large part to Voxeljet’s printers.
Meet Blogger Mobile Biz Stone's Idea for Twitter Before Twitter - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD - This is quintessential Twitter before actually becoming Twitter. The entire premise was to easily post messages from your phone — a concept foreign to most folks who only had feature phones (which basically was most people with cellphones at the time).
Apple Surpassing Android With Businesses Writing Custom Mobile Apps - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD - importantly, more than 95 percent of custom apps developed by businesses are written for Apple devices.
6 things wrong with the ‘Lean Startup’ model (and what to do about it) | VentureBeat - Michael Sharkey is cofounder and CEO of Bislr. He started his first business to impress girls.
Rocket flight as we’ve never seen it before: SpaceX captures Grasshopper rocket via hexacopter | VentureBeat - SpaceX is continuing to test its vertical takeoff and vertical landing rocket, Grasshopper, with small hops to test the rocket guidance and landing technology needed to return a rocket to Earth in exactly the way it slipped the surly bonds of our planet.
Why developers should build on iOS before heading to Android | VentureBeat - Sensopia chose an iOS-first approach for the development of MagicPlan. We are now releasing our software on Android, after having developed and iterated on iOS for a while.
iPhone IP Wars: Apple & the thorny issues of patent protection
Apple's win against Franklin apparently left the company confident that it could also protect the Macintosh from software infringement through similar copyright claims. But things didn't work out that way. "
Jeff Bezos Amazon Book Excerpt - Jason Del Rey - Commerce - AllThingsD
“He has Ted’s laugh!” the stepson told Stone. “It’s almost exact.”"
Mac shipments continue to shrink as Apple loses ground in US PC market - But the numbers don't include Apple's growing international share, nor does either firm track tablet shipments, such as Apple's market-leading iPad.
Apple’s next iPhone will have a big 4.8″ screen (analyst) | VentureBeat - we didn’t see a larger iPhone from Apple this fall when the company released the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.
Piper: More than half of teens own an iPhone, iPad immensely popular
iPhone and iPad remain popular among young people, according to a new study that shows the iPhone in the hands of more than half of American teens. "
HBO COO Kessler -- Who Spearheaded Digital Strategy -- Is Departing - Kara Swisher - Media - AllThingsD - According to a memo from HBO CEO Richard Plepler, COO Eric Kessler will be departing the premium cable channel.
Behind-the-scenes details revealed about Steve Jobs' first iPhone announcement - And the rest of the day turned out to be just a [expletive] for the entire iPhone team.
Apple's 'spaceship' campus clears another regulatory hurdle on way to breaking ground - Cupertino's planning commission gave Apple's new corporate campus the go-ahead this week, clearing the way for a final vote on the project by the Cupertino City Council later in October.
Apple's 'iPad 5' and 'iPad mini 2' to sport iPhone-quality 8MP cameras, Sony to supply sensors - With the new Sony sensors, Apple will bump resolution to 8MP, up from 5MP in the fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini.
Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online | Wired Business | Wired.com - “The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago,” Williams said. “It’s not a utopian world.”
