This week, you don’t get to one Billion friends on Facebook without making a few compromises, Google passes Microsoft, Microsoft shifts paradigms, Foxconn strikes Apple, Apple Maps reveals more than it should, Marissa Mayer revamps Yahoo, Zynga fails, Lightning gets cracked, and we remember Steve Jobs a year later.

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What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Pocket Planes– the game where you run your own airline.
Andy: Netgear R3600, The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Headlines

• Facebook reaches one billion monthly active users in September
  • The Things That Connect Us
• Remembering Steve Jobs: Apple reflects on his passing one year later
  • Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs
• Foxconn denies China iPhone plant hit by strike
  • Apple Choice of IPhone Aluminum Said to Slow Down Output
• Taiwan asks Apple to blur satellite image of radar defense station in Maps app

Audible Book of the Week

• That Is All by John Hodgman

Musical Interlude: Why Can’t We Be Friends? by War

More Headlines

• Google Passes Microsoft’s Market Value as PC Loses to Web
  • Ballmer to Microsoft shareholders: ‘a fundamental shift [is] underway in our business
• Marissa Mayer Is Working On A Revolutionary Change To Yahoo.com, And Sources Say It Might Look Like This
• Words With Friends co-creators leave Zynga
  • ZYNGA Falls 11%
  • Why Zynga Failed
• Apple’s Lightning Authentication Reportedly Cracked, Unauthorized Third-Party Cables coming

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO