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Unlike most people, I don’t own Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock, though I’ve wanted to s... Read the rest of this entry »
Apple (AAPL) crossed an amazing milestone in after-market trading yesterday, when its market capitalization exceeded $500 billion for the first time.
Apple is one of the only one of four companies in history to break this mark, and unlike othe... Read the rest of this entry »
A few months ago, Apple (AAPL) completed the humiliation of its long-time foe, Microsoft (MSFT)—surging past Microsoft's market-capitalization and becoming the most valuable tech company in the world.
For those who watched Apple get left for de... Read the rest of this entry »
Nearly four years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) invested $240 million in Facebook at a valuation of $15 billion. I'm pretty sure that's the first time people began publicly worrying about another Internet bubble, and it's been a slowly crescendoing chorus ev... Read the rest of this entry »
We all remember when Cisco (CSCO), which reports its fourth-quarter results Wednesday at the bell, was once the biggest hitter in Silicon Valley.
In March 2000, at the peak of the dot-com boom, Cisco's market cap reached a whopping $555.4 billion, wh... Read the rest of this entry »
In high tech, startups are a gamble, which is why they offer stock and options to attract talent that could go elsewhere. But a recent development in the Microsoft (MSFT) acquisition of Skype — private equity firm Silver Lake allegedly screwing... Read the rest of this entry »
MacDailyNews crunched some numbers when the market closed yesterday and found that Apple's market value is now worth more than Intel and Microsoft combined.Here's where everything closed:
Microsoft (MSFT): $201.59 billion
Intel (INTC): $115.21 bil... Read the rest of this entry »
Insider Monkey tracks more than 300 hedge funds and a few mutual funds with very respectable track records like Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme. We finished compiling hedge fund holdings and posted them on our free website.
We will be providing som... Read the rest of this entry »
[Editor's note: People are freaking out because Facebook hired a public relations firm to plant stories attacking Google in the press. Guess what? This happens all the time. Google does it, too. Here's a story we wrote about Microsoft's efforts back in... Read the rest of this entry »
After a VP job at AOL, Vince Thompson was Facebook's ad sales boss for about six months before leaving in 2006.
And yet, he was probably the very first Facebook employee (cofounders aside) to become a millionaire thanks to the hot startup. We don't mea... Read the rest of this entry »