{"id":3872,"date":"2009-12-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-decade-in-tech-stocks-hope-you-had-goog-and-aapl-y2k10\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:00:00","slug":"the-decade-in-tech-stocks-hope-you-had-goog-and-aapl-y2k10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/the-decade-in-tech-stocks-hope-you-had-goog-and-aapl-y2k10.php","title":{"rendered":"The Decade in Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG and AAPL [Y2k10]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/techstocksdecade.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2caea_500x_techstocksdecade.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return&mdash;with two notable exceptions.<\/p><p>I'll admit that this chart would be more readable if it had been a more competitive field. But isn't that kind of the point? While everyone else was mucking around trying to recover from the mistakes of the late nineties, two truly innovative companies&mdash;Apple and Google&mdash;distinguished themselves in spectacular fashion. Granted, Google didn't join the party until 2004 and benefits from a severely undervalued IPO, but even taking that into consideration, their current stock price of $622 is <em>20 times<\/em> that of Microsoft. No matter what kind of dividend Ballmer hands out, that's an enormous&mdash;and telling&mdash;gap.<\/p><p>That's the big picture. But I'm curious as to what you guys see in the details, too. A stock can <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5433864\/how-the-apple-tablet-is-already-making-people-rich\">pop on a rumor<\/a> and drop on a dime. What's behind some of the peaks and valleys we see here? [Chart via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\">Google<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=54b12fba7951f73da8fcc626b291b800&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2caea_img.phdo?s=54b12fba7951f73da8fcc626b291b800&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/arnH9usM5wu-kCmnBEu1lcEjw1g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/arnH9usM5wu-kCmnBEu1lcEjw1g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_full?i=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_full?i=vDb3F4Ow1Us:Ha7f5aHiUbI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d698_vDb3F4Ow1Us\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return&mdash;with two notable exceptions.I'll admit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/the-decade-in-tech-stocks-hope-you-had-goog-and-aapl-y2k10.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}