Editor's Pick: Behind Apple's Trillion-Dollar Company Numbers

Behind Apple's Trillion-Dollar Company Numbers

Rob Enderle Aug 6, 2018 10:48 AM PT

Apple is one of the most popular and powerful companies in the U.S., and last week it became the most valuable as well. That news brought back some personal memories of my time at IBM, when it was the most powerful and valuable technology company in the world. For a long time, it seemed virtually untouchable. However, IBM went off the rails, and by the early 1990s the stock had collapsed. [More...]

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