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Steve Jobs named Person of the Year by the Financial Times

by David Quilty (Dec 24th, 2010)

Calling Apple's turn-around over the last ten years "the most remarkable comeback in modern business history," the UK's Financial Times (free registration required) newspaper on Wednesday named Apple CEO Steve Jobs its "Person of the Year" for 2010. Thirty years after Jobs brought the company ...

MarketWatch names Steve Jobs CEO of the decade, rock star of corporate America

by Mel Martin (Dec 8th, 2010)

Well, that's hard to disagree with. Apple was one of the early inventors of the personal computer industry, but when Jobs left Apple, fortunes began to diminish. In the mid 90s, Apple was becoming all but irrelevant. Then Jobs returned, and the hits started appearing. The iMac, the iPod, and now the ...

AAPL hits 52-week low, cries itself to sleep

by Robert Palmer (Nov 20th, 2008)

Apple shares today dropped to an intra-day 52-week low of a penny over $75, and rebounded to close at $80.49 per share. That was down 5.8 points from yesterday's close. This marks the lowest prices for Apple stock since the introduction of the iPhone in early 2007. Many stocks lost ground today in a ...

iPhone video and Greg Joswiak interview from WSJ

by Laurie A. Duncan (Jan 10th, 2007)

Rex Crumb from MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal snagged an interview with Apple's Vice President of iPod marketing, Greg Joswiak. Greg talked about the iPhone and its awesomeness, of course, and Rex gets some rare hands-on video, too! Although some of the footage is stock from the Keynote, ...

iPod USB Power Adapter Beats Zune on Amazon

by Dan Lurie (Dec 2nd, 2006)

By all accounts, the Zune has been and will be a big failure for Microsoft, and now there is hard retailer data to back that up. Tucked inside a MarketWatch article on APPL's all-time high and the prominence of the iPod is this absolutely delectable statistic: "...Microsoft's new Zune media player, ...

Apple shares reach year's best

by David Chartier (Nov 21st, 2006)

MarketWatch is reporting that Apple's shares reached a 52-week high of $87.95 today, apparently fueled by furious rumors of - you guessed it - an iPhone. I'm sure the report that Hon Hai received a manufacturing order from Apple for just such a device isn't doing anything to stop people from losing ...