Jan 10, 2011

Apple: Actually, $50 Billion Isnt Cool. You Know Whats Cool? $300 Billion.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/03/apple-300-billion/
Last night, the Internet was set ablaze by the news that Facebook was taking more money at a valuation of a cool $50 billion. Thats massive. But its actually only 1/6th of the value of another closely-watched company in the tech space: Apple.
Apple hit the $300 billion market cap milestone today after their stock surged 2 percent to open 2011. That makes them only the second public company with such a high value, the other is Exxon Mobile.
Apple, obviously, had a very impressive 2010. A year ago, they were the fifth most valuable public company at only a $213 billio
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