Mobile Minutes: Microsoft shares soar; Internet outages across the country; Amazon's grocery ambitions; Samsung's other
Microsoft
shares surge past 1999 high
Microsoft shares surged 5% in early trading
Friday,and passed a high set in 1999, helped by enthusiasm for progress in its
cloud business.
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more at USA Today
Internet outage swoops in and out of the US
For many people in the US, it was time either to step away from the
computer or to go a little crazy trying to figure out which portions of the
internet were working.
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more at CNET
Watch out Walmart. Amazon is coming after the
grocery business
For years, Walmart Stores Inc. has followed Amazon.com Inc., putting
inventory online and starting its own version of a marketplace where
third-party merchants can sell their wares. Now Amazon is returning the favor.
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more at Bloomberg
Galaxy Note 7 is not Samsung?s only problematic
product
Samsung killed the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones this week after the
devices continued to burst into flames. But the tech behemoth has not
extinguished scrutiny over its safety record.
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more at the New York Times