We know that you visit HEXUS for the latest in UK technology news and reviews, along with sprouting .beans of information and insights into companies through HEXUS.interviews. It seems logical, then, that we take at least a small amount of time to look at the share price of a number of the industry's biggest companies.
At the end of the day, business is all about making money. The more money you make the more you can invest into R&D for better products that will make you yet more money; but you all knew that already.
Every week we'll bring you the share price of the following companies: Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD), ATI Technologies (ATYT), NVIDIA Corp (NVDA), Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), Dell (DELL) and Microsoft (MSFT). AMD and IBM are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with the rest on the NASDAQ. Thanks to the power of press releases, and the likes of Google and Yahoo Finance, we'll be able to attribute changes in share price to events like product launches, acquisition rumours, quarterly reports and so forth.
We're not trying to be a stock exchange know-it-all, far from it. What we intend to do is track the share prices of these companies, creating a bit of interest in what happens at a company beyond the physical products we review here day in, day out. We intend to deliver this information in a format that means you don't have to be a financial expert to get something out of it.
So, without further adieu, here's the first HEXUS.share-watch table, share prices taken from close of play in the US yesterday:
| Company | Listing | Share Price ($US) |
| AMD | AMD | 35.42 |
| ATI Technologies | ATYT | 16.53 |
| Dell | DELL | 29.65 |
| GOOG | 408.95 | |
| IBM | IBM | 80.75 |
| Intel | INTC | 19.2 |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 27.20 |
| NVIDIA | NVDA | 30.45 |
Seeing as this is the first .share-watch, we cannot really comment in what's happened since last week's .share-watch. Still, we can make a few comments.
AMD share price has risen from 34.35 on Tuesday, following news of AMD's latest and last single-core Opterons, which they've clocked up to the nice round figure of 3GHz, along with news that a judge has refused an injunction on a project to build a corporate campus in Austin.
Dell shares dropped somewhat on Tuesday after a stock rating provider advised holders to sell, but come Wednesday the price is back up.
On Tuesday, an article was published about Lenovo's break from the IBM brand, Lenovo having taken over IBM's PC business last year. IBM's shares have been declining slowly all week, that getting steeper, seemingly after this news.
We'll leave it at that for now, and see what's changed next week. Meanwhile, if anyone has any comments, suggestions, opinions or insight, post them in the HEXUS.community.
