Apple Becomes the World’s Most Valuable Tech Company

Apple (AAPL) overtook Microsoft (MSFT) on Wednesday to become the world’s most valuable technology company. In intraday trading in the afternoon session, Apple shares rose 1.8%, which gave the co. a value of $227.1 billion. Shares of Microsoft declined about 1%, giving the co. a market capitalization of $226.3 billion – The NYT