News tagged with capitalization

Apple market value hits $600B

(AP) -- Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Virdia gets $100 million to start cellulose ethanol plant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite calls for finding alternatives to using corn to make biofuel, the United States currently has no such commercial biomass-to-sugar processing plants able to do so. That may soon change ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Apple shares soar, edges ExxonMobil in market cap

Apple shares soared on Wednesday following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker leapfrogged over ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value.

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Calif. stands to reap windfall from Facebook IPO

What's good for Facebook and its employees could be very good for California's treasury.

Technology / Business

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New startup believes it has a way to cheaply convert methane to ethylene

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people think of uses for petroleum, they generally think of oil and gasoline, but doing so means ignoring the production of ethylene, a compound used to make many of the products most ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

LED startup Switch Lighting hopes to light the way in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks - but not light bulbs.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Startup tries to put sociability back into movies

Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple passes Exxon as most valuable US company

(AP) -- Apple has surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S.

Technology / Business

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Warner to sell entire company, near agreement

Warner Music Group Corp. is seeking to sell the entire company, rather than parts of the business, and could agree on a buyer within weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Microsoft's answer to the iPad is still in pieces

(AP) -- Instead of unveiling an elegant response to the iPad, Microsoft came to the tech industry's premier gadget show with a collection of exposed computer guts, news about microchips and a shallow preview ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Twitter valued in billions as popularity climbs

A fresh infusion of investment cash pushed Twitter's market value up to 3.7 billion dollars on Wednesday with the number of people using the microblogging service climbing to 175 million.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dwolla a new player in electronic money transfers

(AP) -- Just as plastic rendered paper checks nearly obsolete, gadgets may soon do the same to credit and debit cards.

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created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Kno textbook reader to ship this year

Kno Inc., a California company making a digital textbook reader for students, announced on Tuesday it would begin shipping the tablet computer by the end of the year.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

YouTube creators cashed in big on sale to Google: documents

YouTube's creators walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars after the startup was bought by Google in 2006, according to documents released in a copyright brawl between Viacom and Google.

Technology / Business

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0