Innovation, not easy money, is behind the Nasdaq’s return to 5,000 By: MarketWatch March 02, 2015 at 16:19 PM EST Apple, Amazon, Priceline and Starbucks have added $1 trillion in market value to the index since 2000, says Howard Gold. Read More >> Related Stocks: Amazon.com Amgen Apple Biogen Idec Celgene Corp Cisco Systems Facebook Gilead Sciences Intel Corp Microsoft Nasdaq 100 Technology Index Fund Netflix Qualcomm, Inc. Starbucks Corp Tesla, Inc. The Priceline Group Verizon Communications Yahoo