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I think RockStar is even worse because they are an NPE that is a sham front set up to further the anticompetitive business interests of two of the largest and m
by zmmmmm 13y ago
I think RockStar is even worse because they are an NPE that is a sham front set up to further the anticompetitive business interests of two of the largest and most dominant companies on the planet. That's all the evil of a patent troll plus extra ...
- eru 13y ago> [...] largest and most dominant companies on the planet. ... in software.
- zmmmmm 13y agoNo. By market cap, Apple is the largest company in the world, full stop[1]. Microsoft is number 7, having spent much of the 90's at #1. Google does not rank at all. So at least by some definitions these companies are indeed the largest in the world without qualification. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_capitalization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
- eru 13y agoMarket cap is one indicator. You can also look at full capitalization, ie debt plus equity. Or you look at number of employees, or total sales. Also, quoting your Wikipedia article: "Some state-owned companies are far larger than even the largest public corporation. For example Saudi Aramco's value has been estimated at $10 trillion, which is twenty times the size of Apple [...]." Anyway, Apple and Microsoft are pretty big and dominating in their industries. No doubt about that.
- sanxiyn 13y agoGoogle actually ranks 15. http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/ft500 http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/ft500