Apple reaches new heights: Stock opens at $680, market cap hits $637B

Apple's stock reached an all-time high when trading began this morning at $680, following the company's monumental legal victory over Samsung on Friday. Apple's market capitalization also reached a new high of $637 billion.

Apple tops Microsoft as most valuable company ever (but not if you count inflation)

Apple has topped Microsoft as the most valuable company of all time. But let's not ignore inflation.

Yahoo needs help: Market cap down, stocks down, employee count down

Yahoo has lost significant market share, reduced its staff multiple times, and its market cap continues to dive. But chief executive Scott Thompson is trying to rehydrate what is currently his raisin of a company by killing off unnecessary products …

Apple hits $600B market cap, still the world’s most valuable company

Remember that time in the 1990′s when Apple was almost bankrupt and in disrepair? Take note, Yahoo, Apple just hit a $600 billion market cap today, the second company in the world to reach the milestone.

Apple reached a high …

Apple shares break $600 for the first time

For a moment this morning, each share of Apple stock was worth as much as a new 32GB third-generation iPad. Apple shares broke the $600 mark for the first time ever Thursday morning, hitting $600.01 before falling back a bit …

Yahoo’s fallback position: Hey, at least we’re not AOL (numbers)

Yahoo’s new chief executive, Scott Thompson, has his work cut out for him.

Thompson, who started his new job earlier this month, will be doing his first earnings call this afternoon. It can’t be a pleasant way to kick off …

AOL’s media business is in trouble, says major investor

One of AOL’s largest shareholders, Starboard Value LP, has warned  Chief Executive Tim Armstrong that his strategy of transforming the company into a media powerhouse isn’t working.

Over the past few years, AOL has attempted to shift away from its …

Dear Lord. Apple has more money than Uncle Sam

It seems insane, but Apple has more money today than the U.S. government. There’s even crazy talk about how Steve Jobs might have to bail out Uncle Sam, the way that J.P. Morgan did in the mid-1890s.

Even as the …