{"id":579899,"date":"2010-05-26T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:30:43","slug":"apple-market-capitalization-exceeds-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579899","title":{"rendered":"Apple market capitalization exceeds Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AppleThe eternal rivalry between Apple <\/strong>and Microsoft <\/strong>reached an other milestone today, as the Californian firm, maker of Macintosh computers and iPhones, market capitalization<\/strong> exceeded the creator of the ubiquitous Windows and Explorer.<\/p>\n

Apple became the second largest company in the S&P 500 index.\u00a0The market’s largest company by market capitalization<\/strong> is Exxon Mobil Corp.<\/p>\n

The situation underlines the failure of the software giant in its effort to break into the field of consumer electronics, which promises to reshape the balance of power in the technology industry.<\/p>\n

The company, based in Redmond, Washington, said the division president, Robbie Bach, will retire in the second half of the year.\u00a0Another veteran of Microsoft, J. Allard, also will retire from the company.\u00a0The chief executive, Steve Ballmer, will head the entertainment division.<\/p>\n

After the mid-session on the Nasdaq electronic market, which traded both companies, Apple<\/strong>’s market value today reached $ 227 970 million, after a gradual rise since the start of trading that has been interrupted a few times, including\u00a0crisis of 2008.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Microsoft<\/strong>’s market capitalization was about $ 226 550 million, with a slight drop from fall 2000 full of ups and downs.<\/p>\n

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  2. Apple investigated for abuse of power in the online music market<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Microsoft will Launch Project Natal on Xbox 360<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The eternal rivalry between Apple and Microsoft reached an other milestone today, as the Californian firm, maker of Macintosh computers and iPhones, market capitalization exceeded the creator of the ubiquitous Windows and Explorer. Apple became the second largest company in the S&P 500 index.\u00a0The market’s largest company by market capitalization is Exxon Mobil Corp. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}