iPhones win 76% of Japan's smartphone market

That's how much of the Japanese smartphone market Apple controlled in October after the release of the iPhone 5S and 5C, according to researcher Kantar Worldpanel. NTT Docomo, Japan's largest telephone company, started carrying the latest iPhones in September, and sales took off. The carrier had resisted offering them to focus on models from Sony and Samsung and protect its own online store from competition with Apple's.

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"I know there are cases
where people still get locked out when they try to purchase a plan."

Karen Basha Egozi of the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, a "navigator" to help people sign up for Obamacare, on bugs that remain in the Healthcare.gov website. The Obama administration has said the site would be working smoothly by Sunday, and navigators report improvements along with continuing outages and errors. Californians, by contrast, can enroll through the state exchange, Covered California. That site is working effectively, with almost 80,000 people selecting a plan by Nov. 19.

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Amazon and Twitter are the subjects of two new books about the Internet business, and their authors appear Tuesday at the Commonwealth Club. Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek will talk about "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon," while New York Times columnist Nick Bilton will discuss "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal." Sequoia Capital Chairman Michael Moritz moderates.

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