Apple
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Apple Computer, Inc. , is an American multination a corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California[2]that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the i. Pod music player, the i. Phone smartphone, and the i. Pad tablet computer.
Its software includes the OS X and i. OS operating systems, the i. Tunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the i. Life and i. Work creativity and production suites. The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia. As of November 2012, Apple maintains 394 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and i. Tunes Store. It is the second-largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization.
With an estimated value of US$414 billion as of January 2013. As of September 29, 2012, the company had 72, 800 permanent full-time employees and 3, 300 temporary full-time employees worldwide. Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion.