Shares of Google rose to an all-time new high today onpositive analyst comments and an uptick in trading for major internet companies. The company's shares rose $9.02 to $534.02 and now has a market cap of $163.6bn. Google is certainly a major force in the market, if you were to compare market cap across the major tech vendors it ranks only behind Microsoft and is ahead of IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP.    read more »

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