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10 relics of the dot-com era trading well below their old highs

Tuesday will mark the 15-year anniversary of the peak of the dot-com stock bubble, when the Nasdaq Composite index hit a record of 5132.50. While some tech stocks, including Priceline (PCLN), Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY), have clawed their way back and surpassed their dot-com era highs, many more have not. Big-name tech stocks still underwater from the Internet boom years include Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and EMC (EMC). A lot of the companies that came to typify the go-go dot-com era no longer exist because of bankruptcies or mergers and acquisitions. But a few living fossils from that era are still around, some miles below their all-time highs. What follows are 10 of those stocks. Yahoo Yahoo (YHOO) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. But a bigger time to party was January 2000, when Yahoo stock hit a split-adjusted high of 125.03. During the dot-com crash, shares traded…

EMC Leads As Total Disk Storage Sales Up 7.2% In Q4

Global sales of enterprise disk storage systems reached $10.57 billion in the fourth quarter at the factory level, up 7.2% from the year-earlier period, says research firm IDC. EMC (EMC), the longtime leader, retained its No. 1 spot with a 22% market share, down from 21% in Q4 2013. EMC’s Q4 revenue in disk storage systems totaled $2.35 billion. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) was No. 2 with a 13.8% share. HP maintained its Q4 lead in server sales, however.

HP Expands Server Lead As IBM Retreats

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) holds a commanding lead in sales of server computers, now that IBM has exited the low end of the market. Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP was No. 1 in server sales worldwide by factory revenue in Q4 with 26.8% market share, research firm IDC reported Tuesday. Dell was second with 16.7% market share, followed by IBM (IBM) with 13.7%. For the year, HP was tops in global server sales with 26.2% market share, followed by IBM (18.4%)