Is Microsoft Irrelevant?

Release Date 27 May, 2010 in Forbes

 
   

Apple and Microsoft's Tug of War

New York Times - 27 May, 2010
Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft on May 26, 2010, supplanting the computer software giant as the world's most valuable ...

Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech co

Times of India - 27 May, 2010
SEATTLE: Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company based on market value, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker ...

Apple Passes Microsoft As Most Valuable Tech Company

Forbes (blog) - 27 May, 2010
Christina Warren is a writer, speaker, podcaster and video host. Before joining Mashable, Christina was the assistant lead blogger at Download Squad and The ...

Jobs wears tech crown as Apple eclipses Microsoft in market cap

Financial Times - Joseph Menn - 27 May, 2010
Apple has overtaken Microsoft to become the largest technology company by market value, crowning a stunning corporate ...

Apple worth more than Microsoft

Seattle Times - Sharon Pian Chan - 27 May, 2010
Apple passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable technology company based on market capitalization. By Sharon Pian Chan It was the day a million ...

Apple overtakes Microsoft as most valuable tech firm

Hindustan Times - 27 May, 2010
Apple on Wednesday overtook Microsoft as the world's most valuable technology company, thanks to the persistent run-up in Apple shares and the dwindling ...

Apple Tops Microsoft in the Market

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries - 27 May, 2010
Wednesday afternoon marked the end of an era, as Microsoft lost its grip on the title of most valuable technology company. ...

Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

Reuters - Bill Rigby, Gary Hill - 27 May, 2010
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs speaks about features on the iPod Nano, which includes a video camera, at a special event in San Francisco, ...

Apple Overtakes Microsoft As Most Valuable Tech Company

InformationWeek - Antone Gonsalves - 27 May, 2010
By appealing to an increasingly consumer-drive market, Apple has supplanted longtime rival Microsoft as the most valuable technology company with a market ...

Apple knocks off Microsoft as most valuable tech company

Los Angeles Times - David Sarno, Tiffany Hsu - 27 May, 2010
Culminating a resurgence that began with the introduction of the iPod in 2001, the Macintosh maker is now the second-largest company in the US by stock ...

Apple passes Microsoft as top tech company

San Francisco Chronicle - Ryan Kim - 27 May, 2010
Apple, long the scrappy but innovative challenger to dominant Microsoft, has passed its rival in market capitalization, becoming the most valued technology ...

Apple: Will Steve Ballmer Show Up At The WWDC Keynote?

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - 27 May, 2010
So, maybe there could be a surprise or two at the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference, after all. Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with ...

7 Key Turning Points That Made Apple No. 1

Wired News - Brian X. Chen - 27 May, 2010
Apple has been through some extreme ups and downs, but today the corporation climbed to an all-time high. Apple surpassed longtime rival ...

Apple Overtakes Microsoft in Market Capitalization

BusinessWeek - Connie Guglielmo, Dina Bass - 27 May, 2010
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., the computer maker turned mobile gadgeteer, overtook Microsoft Corp. to become the most ...

Apple now bigger than Microsoft

BBC News - 27 May, 2010
Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn). Microsoft is now valued by ...

Apple unseats Microsoft as world's biggest tech company

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 27 May, 2010
The impossible has finally happened. Apple has passed Microsoft in market capitalization to become the world's biggest tech company. ...

Apple overtakes Microsoft to become world's biggest technology company

Telegraph.co.uk - Rowena Mason - 27 May, 2010
Apple, inventor of the iPod and iPhone, has become the world's biggest technology company - eclipsing arch-rival Microsoft in size. ...

iPhone and iPad maker becomes the most valuable tech company

Macleans.ca - 27 May, 2010
It turns out that the future was in hardware after all. In what some are calling a symbol of one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds in business ...

Apple dethrones Microsoft as top US tech company

AFP - 27 May, 2010
NEW YORK â€" Apple, maker of the Macintosh computer, the iPod, iPhone and iPad, dethroned software giant Microsoft on Wednesday as the largest US technology ...

Stock market: Apple worth more than Microsoft

Washington Post - Rob Pegoraro - 27 May, 2010
As if Microsoft hasn't had enough bad news this week, the stock market now thinks Apple is a more valuable company -- despite Apple's far ...

Apple passes Microsoft in valuation

CNET - Ina Fried - 27 May, 2010
Apple has long been the little guy in the Mac vs. PC debate, but that's no longer the case. As of trading near the end of the day on Wednesday, ...

Is Microsoft Irrelevant?

Forbes - Brian Caulfield - 27 May, 2010
Apple is now worth more than the software giant. Can Microsoft catch up in smartphones? BURLINGAME, CALIF. -- In 1997 a struggling Apple turned to rival ...

HEARD ON THE STREET: Gravity-Defying Apple Leaves Microsoft Hanging

Wall Street Journal - Martin Peers - 27 May, 2010
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has some explaining to do. Since he took over from Bill Gates as CEO in January 2000, ...

Another Milestone For Apple: Passing Microsoft

NPR (blog) - Jacob Goldstein - 27 May, 2010
Apple passed Microsoft today to become the world's biggest technology company, as measured by market cap. Market cap moves with stock ...

Apple Overtakes Microsoft, Becoming 2nd Largest US Company

Wall Street Journal - David Benoit, Shara Tibken - 27 May, 2010
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--With a slide in the value of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) on Wednesday, Apple Inc. ...

Apple passes Microsoft in market cap

Seattle Times - Sharon Pian Chan - 27 May, 2010
Market capitalization is the stock price times outstanding shares, and is commonly used to measure how much the stock market values a company. ...

Apple overtakes Microsoft, is now No. 2

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - 27 May, 2010
At the close of market Wednesday, Apple's (AAPL) share price stood at $244.11, down $1.11 (0.45%) for the day. Microsoft (MSFT), on the other hand, ...

Apple dethrones Microsoft as world's most valuable tech company

San Jose Mercury News - Troy Wolverton - 27 May, 2010
FILE -- On Wednesday, Apple officially became tech's Top Dog. By the time the stock market closed, the iPhone maker's market value hit ...

Apple Passes Microsoft as World's Largest Tech Company

Wired News - Dylan F. Tweney - 27 May, 2010
Apple's market capitalization officially passed Microsoft's this afternoon, making the Cupertino company, for the first time, ...

Apple Inc. passes rival Microsoft Corp.'s market cap for the first time

Los Angeles Times (blog) - 27 May, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs hefts a MacBook Air laptop in 2008. Credit: Robert Durell / LA Times. For the first time in the long history of the dueling computer ...

 

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