Apple Financial Information
Apple, Inc. is a software, computer and consumer electronics manufacturing company. The company historically develops and markets new technologies.
Fast Facts
- Stock symbol: AAPL (NASDAQ)
- Annual revenue (2007): $24 billion1
- Year established: 1976
- Industry: Software development, computer and electronics manufacturing
- CEO: Steve Jobs
- CFO: Peter Oppenheimer
- Employees (2007): 21,6002
Lucrative Partnerships
The bulk of Apple's computers were designed to run on PowerPC processors. But in 2006, the company switched over to Intel's more popular line of processors. Apple also forged partnerships with major mobile phone carriers with the release of the iPhone, which was locked into use with a single wireless carrier in a particular region of the world.
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