Google (GOOGL) might have more fuel in its engine than a lot of investors are giving the company credit for. The global search leader, whose stock price is down 6% from where it was a year ago, will continue to keep its lead over rivals Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) in the search business, says John Blackledge, an analyst for Cowen and Co. And it will do so, he says, while getting increasing mileage for its Android operating system
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…
One day after Alibaba (BABA) hit a record low, the Chinese e-commerce giant has rebounded a bit. On the stock market today, Alibaba shares had their biggest single-day gain since their first day of trade. But is it time to buy this recent IPO? Meanwhile, shares of Yahoo (YHOO) rebounded off of their 200-day line in fast trade, closing the day up 3%. Yahoo has yet to sell its entire stake in Alibaba, so the Chinese stock has an impact on Yahoo’s