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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company as measured by market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.
 
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Apple's shares rose 1 percent on Nasdaq on Wednesday, pushing its market value up to $225.1 billion and ahead of Microsoft's $222.7 billion, according to Reuters data. Apple shares were up 1 percent above $247 in late afternoon trading. Microsoft shares were down 2.2 percent to $25.50.
Shares of Apple are worth more than 10 times what they were 10 years ago, as it has profited from revolutionizing consumer electronics with its stylish, easy to use products such as the iPod, iPhone and MacBook laptops.
Microsoft, whose operating system runs on more than 90 percent of the world's PCs, has not been able to match growth rates of previous years. Its stock is down about 18 percent from 10 years ago.
Apple, which struggled for many years to get its products into the mainstream, resorted to a $150 million investment from the much larger Microsoft in 1997 in order to keep it afloat.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is now the second-largest company on the S&P 500 index by market value, behind energy behemoth Exxon Mobil Corp.
(Reporting by Bill Rigby and Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Gary Hill)
			
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May 26, 2010 3:52pm EDT
        
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resorted to a $150 million investment from the much larger Microsoft in 1997 in order to keep it afloat.
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this is false,  Apple decided to drop a bunch of lawsuits agains MSFT for a 1 time payment,   and a promise to support office..  in exchange for using IE as the browser of choice…
Apple at the time was spending $150 million every 10 days on business expenses…   so obviously since they lasted more than 10 days,   the payment had nothing to do with survival,  it was a token payment at best and had little impact…
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May 26, 2010 3:56pm EDT
        
interesting,150 mill,huh,beats a holding company,switch,next,kinda like the democrats & republicans,working together to stymie any  actual exsclusionary INNOVATION,ka-ching,now that ya mention it I am starting to notice a pattern,lets go shopping for garbage everybody,all at the same time
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May 26, 2010 3:59pm EDT
        
It was about time, Apple, with its huge commercial and marketing stronghold and amidst its pre-organised and pre-arranged media hype extravaganza of i-things, to surpass a giant with dos feet! This is news to be carefully considered from all of us. Companies that make no great improvement over dos os still have 90% market share and other companies that only ride the wave of commercialism are now the biggest US companies ahead of manufacturing or financial giants. 
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May 26, 2010 4:15pm EDT
        
A tale of two CEO’s — Jobs and Ballmer. One a compulsive innovator, both business and product, the other a solid, Rah-Rah salesman.
When Gates left we should have posted the sign “Innovation has left the building.”
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Microsoft still  earns about twice what Apple does. “Dos feet” or not, a software company cannot be compared to a hardware company except by how much is left at the end of the day, when all expenses are tallied.  That’s where Microsoft comes out on top.
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May 26, 2010 4:38pm EDT
        
So while America runs on dunkin… sorry … Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, SUN etc from the real tech companies, Apple wins the race making consumer toys.
Sad state really.
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I develop on the iPod Touch. After comparing it’s performance to my stupid, useless, slow, buggy, Windows Mobile 6 Palm Treo, I wish I would have gone with the iPhone. 
** CHECK OUT MY IPHONE APPS: ShatterBall, BalloonMaker **
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