Google and Microsoft combined can't beat Apple

Apple rolling in cashApple News By Marc Chacksfield Friday at 11:24 UTC | Tell us what you think [ 6 comments ]

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New financial results show that Apple now has a market value which is greater than both Google and Microsoft combined.

Stock in the company rose by a mighty three per cent this week, this comes a few weeks after the company revealed that it had its best quarter ever – managing to earn $13.06 billion with total revenue in the quarter up to $46.33 billion.

Apple: bigger than drugs

Couple these results with Google's share price falling nine per cent and Microsoft losing 6 per cent of its Windows revenue and what you have is a company which is greater in stock value than the sum of its two biggest tech rivals combined.

Aptly, it was Fortune magazine which put Apple's fortune into context best, with it noting that the company now worth more than the gross domestic product of Denmark and has more value more than all of the illegal drugs in the world put together.

And if you want to know more things Apple is richer than, then head over to the rather excellent 'things Apple is worth more than' Tumblr.

Via AppleInsider

Tags: Google, Microsoft, AppleTweetreddit!StumbleuponComment on this article  Your comments (6) Click to add a new commentbradavon

Friday at 16:56 UTC

6. You don't want Microsoft to die. Their software runs on so many businesses we're all connected to in some way.

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nia

Friday at 15:38 UTC

5. Microdick and apple are the biggest a-holes on the planet...

Hope they soon die and wanish, greedy *******s!!

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dercius

Friday at 14:49 UTC

4. I don't care how well its doing,the bottom line is that Apple is a nasty company,run by megalomaniacs,and seemingly bent on world domination,the sooner they fall the better.

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tentimes

Friday at 14:26 UTC

3. Strong it is, the Ghost of Jobs. Wither, it will, in time.

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tentimes

Friday at 14:23 UTC

2. They will crash big after they lose the next tablet war. I think 2012 is the time to sell Apple stock. 2013 onward will be a decline.

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battousai

Friday at 13:07 UTC

1. And yet they are still so worried that they have to sue everyone for everything for having the downright nerve to have a competing device...

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EU: Programming language can't be copyrighted

The EU Court of Justice's advocate general, Yves Bot, has said that to allow programming language to be copyrighted would only lead to monopolies in the IT industry.

Bot offered his recommendations for the case of SAS Institute which is suing World Programing Ltd for infringing its copyrights by copying its programmes.

"The functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright," said Bot.

"If it were accepted that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such, that would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development."

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But Bot argued that the ways in which elements of the programming language are used can be protected, in the same way that a writer putting specific words into a certain order can claim intellectual property over them.

"The way in which formulae and algorithms are arranged - like the style in which the computer program is written - will be likely to reflect the authors own intellectual creation and therefore be eligible for protection," he said.

Although the opinions expressed by Bot aren't legally binding, his thoughts converge with those of the England and Wales court which went to the European Court of Justice for advice on the SAS Institute case in the first place.

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