tech industry
04/07/2005, 12:40pm, EDT
Thursday, April 7th
Apple moves up Forbes 2000 list, MS falls slightly
Apple now ranks 442nd on Forbes' list of the largest companies worldwide. The company moved up more than 300 positions from 2004, when it ranked 762nd on the list. Forbes lists Apple's sales at $9.76 billion, with profits of $510 million, and a market value of $36.66 billion. Apple now has over $9 billion in assets, and 11,695 employees. The highest ranked technology hardware company was IBM, which ranked 17th overall. HP trailed IBM with a distant 54th. Apple remains ahead of Sun, Nortel, Casio, and other hardware makers. Apple also ranked higher than Yahoo, Google and Adobe. Microsoft lead the Software category, but had fallen to 47th overall from 31st. The highest ranked company worldwide was financial firm Citigroup, with nearly 300,000 employees and assets of over $1.4 trillion.
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on a personal note, it does sound odd. when I think Casio, I think cheap watches and calculators! not a top 500 ranked company! I didnt even know they were still around! Texas Ins falls under the same category for me. =)
If only! Its just too bad that the further up that list you go, the tougher it is to keep moving up!
Casio makes lots of point-of-sale hardware.
TI is the leader in projected video (DLP) as well as many other products.
The world is not just about comsumer products.
With other words: 1 year, 2 months, and 3 days
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I'm well aware of TI and Casios business. I actually had to contact TI for a replacement part a few months ago. I was merely making a joke. Take your phaser off "serious" for a second and lighten up! =P