Facebook’s Mobility Challenge

 Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. 

Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.

“We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven,” the company said in its review of the risks it faces.

In a world that is rapidly moving toward an era of mobile computing, this is a troubling issue for Silicon Valley’s brightest star — particularly since much of Facebook’s growth right now is in countries like Chile, Turkey, Venezuela and Brazil, where people largely have access to the Internet using cellphones.

Man-shaped mini-planes over New York and other tech news

Human-shaped, remote-controlled flying planes took to the skies over New York and surprised on-lookers as part of a Hollywood publicity stunt.
Viral video specialists created the contraptions to promote the upcoming superhero film Chronicle.
And the giant social network Facebook hopes to raise as much as $5bn (£3.16bn, 3.8bn euros) in its stock market flotation
Spencer Kelly presents these and other technology news stories.

Apple overturns Motorola's iPad and iPhone sales bans

Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its products in Germany.

Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store earlier today after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December.
An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new licence payment offer.

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