Los Angeles wants to bring free fiber Internet to every resident, without paying for it | VentureBeat To require fiber in "every residence, every business, and every government entity within the city limits of Los Angeles"
In "Hatching Twitter," a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD - Twitter’s founders may indeed have tapped into one of the most pervasive new forms of communication in the past century
Review: Apple's late-2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display - Users who want more power from their portable machine in the form of a discrete GPU will be forced to upgrade to Apple's 15-inch model, and even then it's not a standard inclusion.
Apple-backed patent consortium sues Google, major Android manufacturers - It is widely believed that thanks to the agreements, Microsoft makes more money each year from Android than Google does.
Facebook earnings show that desktop ads — and Google — may soon become irrelevant | VentureBeat - With the social network’s monthly active userbase up 45 percent year over year, ad money from mobile added up to around 49 percent of all ad revenue ($1.8 billion) from this quarter.
UnitedHealth Unit Tapped to Repair Health-Law Website - Jennifer Corbett Dooren - News - AllThingsD - The Obama administration said Friday it has named a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. to oversee repairs to its troubled health-insurance website and for the first time gave a specific estimate — the end of November — for when the site would be fixed.
Samsung Fined Over HTC Smear Campaign - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD - On Thursday, the agency levied a $341,037 fine against Samsung’s Taiwanese subsidiary for hiring students to post fake online reviews criticizing HTC devices.
Apple's updated 15" MacBook Pro features Intel Crystalwell graphics, starts at $1999 - Along with the $200 price drop, which extends down to the new 13-inch model, Apple's latest flagship notebook features faster PCIe flash, as well as an optional GeForce GT 750M graphics processor.
