{"id":1305,"date":"2009-10-18T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2009-10-18T17:29:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:29:02","slug":"google-market-cap-overtook-apple-on-oct-16-fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/google-market-cap-overtook-apple-on-oct-16-fri\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Market Cap Overtook Apple on Oct. 16 (Fri)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1306\" title=\"aapl_vs_goog_20091016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aapl_vs_goog_20091016.PNG\" alt=\"aapl_vs_goog_20091016\" width=\"303\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aapl_vs_goog_20091016.PNG 303w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/aapl_vs_goog_20091016-300x89.PNG 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember being a little surprised when Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) market cap caught up and overtook Google&#8217;s (GOOG) earlier this year. I wondered at the time how long that would last. Apple&#8217;s stock share price has been on a tear for most of this year. It has more than doubled since the beginning of 2009 (up around 120%). Google&#8217;s share price is up nearly 80% since the beginning of the year. But because of the arithmetic involved (share price times number of shares available), Google&#8217;s market cap is back to being larger than Apple&#8217;s again as of October 16, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember being a little surprised when Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) market cap caught up and overtook Google&#8217;s (GOOG) earlier this year. I wondered at the time how long that would last. Apple&#8217;s stock share price has been on a tear for most of this year. It has more than doubled since the beginning of 2009 (up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}