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Apple becomes No. 1 technology company in the world

Posted by: dnegi

Tagged in: tech war , microsoft , iPod , iPhone , iPad , apple

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With today's US market close Apple has overtaken Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world by market capitalization.

Apple's move comes as the company's iPhone, and now its iPad tablet computer, have taken on more of the personal computing tasks once handled by computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system and other programs.

Market cap is the dollar value of a company's outstanding shares. On Wednesday, Apple Inc.'s shares slipped $1.11 to close at $244.11, making its market cap about $222 billion.


Microsoft Corp.'s stock fell $1.06, or 4.1 percent, to close at $25.01, for market cap of about $219 billion.


Marko Calasan a native of Macedonia has become the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows Server 2003 at the age of 9. 



Marco passed his first certificate Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System (MCP 70-271) exam on 13 June, 2007 at the age of 6.


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