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.
