Microsoft once again world's most valuable company
From a Wall Street Journal story (subscription required):
Microsoft Corp. is once again the world's most valuable company.
The Redmond, Wash., software company sports a market capitalization of $262.1 billion based on Friday's close. That's less than half its peak value, but good enough to eclipse the sagging General Electric Co., whose market cap is $240.9 billion.
GE, an industrial and entertainment conglomerate, commanded the highest market value for most of the 1990s until it was unseated by Microsoft in September 1998 amid the technology-stock rally. At the time, Microsoft had a market cap of $261.1 billion and GE had a market cap of $257.3 billion.