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...little long in the tooth. "It's clear that Microsoft doesn't see itself as a high-growth company anymore," says Matt Rosoff, a financial analyst with Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland, Wash. "The boom days are over." Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started giving employees stock grants instead of stock options--a sure sign that the share price is flatlining. Ballmer okayed a minuscule dividend for shareholders, but he has resisted calls to let them dip any further into the $56 billion cookie...
...pockets, with mixed results. It sank billions into the video-game business (Xbox and its soon-to-be-announced successor, Xbox 2), the cell-phone business (partnering with longtime ally Intel) and something called smart personal object technology (SPOT), which uses FM-radio bands to deliver sports, weather and stock prices to devices like watches and refrigerator-door magnets for a subscription of $59 a year...
...worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley is finally out: Google, the Internet search engine with legions of digital devotees, will sell shares to the public sometime this summer. The crush of interest that has surrounded what will be a highly unusual initial public offering (IPO) of stock is in many ways justified. Google is that rare Internet success story--profitable since 2001, with revenue that soared nearly threefold since then, to $962 million, last year...
...their attempt to create a corporate utopia, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are creating two stock classes--one for themselves and one for the rest of us, who must bid through what's known as a Dutch auction. For a variety of reasons, it's not a stock you need to rush...
...being handled virtually ensures that there will be no quick reward. The stock is as likely to fall as to fly on the first day of trading. The filing reveals a reluctance to go public, even though the two founders, former Stanford computer-science graduate students who together will own about 32% of the company's shares, could emerge worth some $4 billion each. In a folksy manifesto that's part of the filing, the founders liken themselves, a tad arrogantly, to Warren Buffett, saying they will take risks as though Google were a private company and will offer...