5 O’Clock Roundup: Amazon’s all-time high, Microsoft’s ignorable low, the Windows 7 questions no one but David Pogue wants to be seen answering
Amazon shares hit an all-time record - - Today’s $118.49 price is higher than the $400-plus days of 1999, because of splits in the years since. Today’s share price would be about $700 without the splits, says the Wall Street Journal. The Journal hauled out Mary Meeker, a big booster of Amazon and other dot-com stocks in the late 1990s who still follows the sector: Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker attributed Amazon’s recent surge to “continued success in adding new customers.” She added th