http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/technology/earth-rattling-times-at-samsung-and-twitter.html 2016-10-11 18:47:05 Earth-Rattling Times at Samsung and Twitter The Galaxy Note 7 smartphone maker halted production after some of the devices caught fire. And Twitter was facing an implosion in potential deal talks. === Samsung and O.K., the connection might be Twitter, simultaneously, is grappling with the exploding of potential deal talks to sell itself — or, wait, is that an implosion? The company is still in discussions with at least one suitor, Salesforce.com, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, is more amenable to a potential sale now than he was last month, The Samsung and Twitter situations underscore how fickle the tech world can be with once-hot products or services that can, in what seems like a flash, lose popularity. Then it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire — and an exploding fire at that.