Tricia Duryee in News on August 24, 2011 at 5:08 pm PT
Apple’s stock is getting hit hard in after-hours trading following the announcement that CEO Steve Jobs has resigned.
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John Paczkowski in News on August 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm PT
Once again, based on market cap, Apple is the biggest public company in world, surpassing Exxon. After briefly overtaking the oil company for the first time Tuesday,
Apple edged past it again Wednesday, ending the day with a value of $337.37 billion to Exxon’s $330.77 billion.
John Paczkowski in News on August 9, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
A new milestone for Apple. Short-lived, though.
John Paczkowski in News on July 22, 2011 at 4:19 am PT
The next claimant to the title of world’s most valuable company may well be Apple.
John Paczkowski in News on April 29, 2011 at 7:05 am PT
What was unimaginable just a decade ago has finally occured. Apple is now more profitable than Microsoft.
Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 8:29 am PT
If wishes were horses, as the old proverb goes, all beggars would ride.
Or, in the case of the incessant corporate drama around Yahoo: If wishes were deals, all bankers would get big fat fees.
Even BoomTown has been harboring a big wish that there were some new scenario–instead of the same retreads that have been bandied about for more than a month–that was at least
possible.
But because making up scenarios about the fate of Yahoo is all fun and games, it goes on and on and on.
John Paczkowski in News on October 18, 2010 at 3:03 am PT
Apple’s shares broke $300 for the first time last week, pushing its market cap to well past $280 billion–second only to that of oil behemoth Exxon Mobil. Should the company’s rally continue, it won’t be long before it overtakes Exxon on the Standard and Poor’s 500. And there’s no reason at all to think that it won’t.
John Paczkowski in News on June 21, 2010 at 11:20 am PT
With Apple, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, “selling an iPad every three seconds” and early demand for the company’s new iPhone 4 strong enough to red-line the company’s pre-order system, Apple shares have been trading at all time highs. The stock is clearly on a tear and will be for some time to come. But that doesn’t mean it is risk-free, says Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 18, 2010 at 7:26 am PT
A reminder: When Facebook executives aren’t busy fending off privacy queries, they’re running a business. A really big one. How big? Try $800 million last year.
