Apple is worth $600 billion. Yesterday, for the first time, the stock market capitalization of the Cupertino company reached a value more than double that of its rival Microsoft (260 billion). Ever more leader in the hi-tech market, the company founded by Steve Jobs confirms his fortune, founded on his great ability to create ever-attractive products. Since the beginning of the year, the value of the stock has grown by 60%.
A race without brakes. In fact, according to analysts, Apple could reach a capitalization of one trillion dollars within a few years. Mind-boggling figures, to which hi-tec has accustomed us. The value of Facebook's IPO is around 100 billion dollars, and Zuckerberg's company also bought two days ago Istagram, the smartphone application created by a company one and a half years old and 15 employees, to one billion dollars.
Huge volumes of money, galloping growth and an increasingly liquid and unstable hierarchy among the leading companies in the sector. This is the world of hi-tec, which holds surprises and high risks. Because the chorus of analysts who fear the risk of a speculative bubble is increasingly thick, nothing different from what happened at the end of the 90s.
