4 posts and columns on Standard & Poor

Intel Says Sandy Bridge Support Chip Has "Design Errors"

in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

Intel finds an error in a chip alongside its Sandy Bridge processor. Its shares are taking a beating while those of rival AMD are up.

Dueling Market Caps: Apple and Microsoft

in News on April 22, 2010 at 2:18 pm PT

Well look at that: With a float-adjusted market cap of $241.5 billion, Apple is now the second largest company on the S&P 500, ahead of Microsoft. But on a full value basis, it’s not.

S&P Sees Microsoft-Yahoo JV, Google-Apple Tensions

in News on December 31, 2008 at 8:15 am PT

‘Tis the season to make year 2009 predictions. Today, Standard & Poor’s analysts released their predictions for the Internet in 2009. Internet analyst Scott Kessler says Microsoft and Yahoo will “finally bury the hatchet” next year “and decide to join forces to better compete against Google.”

Dell: Stock Swoons on Gross Margin Miss

in News on August 29, 2008 at 10:20 am PT

This morning, the market is suffering in Dell (DELL) hell. Last night, the company posted results for its fiscal second quarter ended July, which beat the Street impressively on the top line, but at the cost of lower-than-expected gross margins, resulting in a miss at the EPS level.