How Many Companies Have Been “The Largest”?

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Apple is the 11th company to become the largest by market capitalization:


http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/how-many-companies-have-been-the-largest/

Market value in billions of 2012 dollars when the company first became the largest
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/25/business/taking-its-place-among-the-largest-companies.html?ref=business

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/business/apple-confronts-the-law-of-large-numbers-common-sense.html?_r=1