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Mobile Minutes: Microsoft shares soar; Internet outages across the country; Amazon’s grocery ambitions; Samsung’s other problem

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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.
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read more at the New York Times