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Mobile Minutes: Apple’s MacBook Pro; Facebook’s memorials; Texting cows; Cheetah Mobile goes to Europe

When Apple unveiled its new MacBook Pro laptops at a media event last month, Adam Leventhal, a software engineer, was eager to learn about them.
Numerous users of the site found that their personal pages had apparently been memorialized — a designation normally reserved for the deceased — around 3:45 p.m. on Friday.
Cows across 350 farms in nearly two-dozen countries around the world are now embedded with hot-dog-sized wireless sensors in their stomachs.
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A new mobile giant is looking to break into the European market and it could be good news for startups.