Wired's article is even better:
Apple Passes Microsoft as World?s Largest Tech Company
What a long, strange trip it?s been.
Apple?s market capitalization officially passed Microsoft?s Wednesday afternoon, making the Cupertino company, for the first time, the largest technology company in the world.
With a market cap of $241.5 billion versus Microsoft?s $239.5 billion, Apple also became the second-largest company on the S&P 500, according to Standard & Poor?s analyst Howard Silverblatt.
At the moment, only Exxon Mobil is bigger.
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