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Move Over Amazon, Alphabet: Facebook Hits High

A lot of attention is currently on Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT), but there’s another tech giant that hit a new high in the stock market today: Facebook (FB). Facebook on Thursday announced that it had updated its search feature by indexing trillions of posts. The social networking giant says that this is a way to track the discussion of news events in real time. It helps Facebook better compete with Alphabet’s Google unit

5 key takeaways from Microsoft’s Q1 surprise

Microsoft (MSFT) stock surged to near an all-time high Friday in heavy trading, a day after it posted much better-than-expected September quarter results. Microsoft leaped more than 11% to as high as 53.61 in morning trading on the stock market today. That’s the highest it’s been since before the dot-com bubble burst in March 2000. Microsoft reached its record high of 53.98 in December 1999. Late Thursday, Microsoft said it earned 67 cents a share