I’ve run websites with millions of monthly visitors, built mobile apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads, created online learning communities with over half a million registered users, and eaten a 24-oz peppercorn steak in one glorious sitting.

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stories by John Koetsier

Why 75 cents of every dollar spent on mobile advertising is spent on iPhone and iPad

There's a reason that even though Android has almost caught up to iOS in downloads, it's still way behind in monetization.

Photo: Apple’s new cheaper multi-colored iPhone surfaces, allegedly

Case manufacturer Tactus has published a photo that is allegedly Apple's new budget iPhone, a plastic-backed larger-screen iPhone that will reportedly retail for about $300.

Facebook fans just went up in value: BMW fans are worth $1,613, Starbucks $177, and Coke $70

Facebook fans who are worth over $1,600? How does that work?

The sad long story of Fisker Automotive, ‘the largest VC-backed debacle in U.S. history’

"Fisker spent a stunning $900,000 for each vehicle it produced," PrivCo chief executive Sam Hamadeh told me. "Then they sold them to dealers for an invoice price of just $70,000."

eBay Q1 2013: Income up 19%, and the future is PayPal

The future of eBay is mobile payments, however, and for investors willing to overlook some short-term pain, there may be some long-term gain as PayPal transaction volume increased a strong 21 percent in the last quarter, and PayPal merchant services jumped 25 percent.

Apple has shed the equivalent of a Google or a Microsoft since September

The new drop means that Apple is now more than $300/share down from its high point in September, when the company was worth over $650 billion.

Twitter’s new keyword targeting ad product: now Twitter’s starting to monetize your interest graph

Tweets that you read and accounts that you follow are fairly likely to be on subjects that you care about. Tweets that you write are almost guaranteed to be about something that matters to you.

Google Play now at 90% of iOS app store downloads; iOS still holds a 2.6X revenue lead

Google Play is quickly catching up to Apple's App Store, both in download numbers and in revenue.

Happy Foursquare Day, get your super-duper self-quantified activity infographic for the past 365 days

It's the 16th day of the fourth month -- four squared, in other words. Which means it's Foursquare Day, and which means that you can visit Fourquare.com to get a personalized infographic of the past year year.

Mobile ads GPS study: How far will you drive for a deal? (infographic)

We'll drive 2.8 miles for just the right sandwich, but 7.1 miles for a great Italian restaurant.

Evernote launches no-equity accelerator program to promote ‘more cool things’ on its platform

How does an all-expenses-paid trip to Redwood City, Calif., for a month-long entrepreneurship course with Silicon Valley developers and designers sound?

Leap Motion and HP bringing embedded gesture control to PCs; ‘watches, smartphones, glasses’ coming next

Leap Motion announced a major new partnership with HP today to embed its hardware and software right into new HP laptops and desktops. And mobile devices like smartphones, tablets -- and glasses -- are coming up next, the company told me.

iTunes turning 10 years old, still owns 63% of music download business

Last year, 44 million Americans bought at least one song or album from iTunes. This month, the digital music store that changed the way we buy music will celebrate its 10th birthday.

U.S led the world in mobile web speed boosts last year, according to Google

Despite pages growing from 56% to 75% bigger, the web is getting faster. Especially on mobile -- and especially in the U.S.

Boston Marathon bombings: How tech is helping

As everyone connected to the Internet knows by now, Boston has been the scene of at least three bombings today at the Boston Marathon and the JFK Library. For coverage of that news, Boston.com has a liveblog that it is continuously updating, and CNN has more details and coverage.

Here's what big technology companies are doing in response.

Google, not Facebook, will win the true war for likes, Forrester says

"The database of affinity is Facebook's birthright," Forrester Analyst Nate Elliott says. "And it's going to blow it.

PSY’s latest video hits a record 67 million views in two days … but it’s nasty, not funny

A lot more people, proportionally, dislike this video than Gangnam Style.

AppGratis CEO resolves to keep calm and carry on in the face of attacks on his business — and integrity

AppGratis CEO Simon Dawlat has been through the storm of his entrepreneurial life in the last two weeks.