Updated Oct. 2, 2012 at 5:47 a.m.
Google
New York — The milestone follows Google's rise from a search-engine invented by two Stanford University students into an advertising powerhouse that makes the world's most used mobile operating system and tool for digging up information on the Web. It also reflects the ascension of the Internet as the delivery channel for more of the software and computing tasks that were once left to the Microsoft-dominated PC industry....
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New York — The milestone follows Google's rise from a search-engine invented by two Stanford University students into an advertising powerhouse that makes the world's most used mobile operating system and tool for digging up information on the Web. It also reflects the ascension of the Internet as the delivery channel for more of the software and computing tasks that were once left to the Microsoft-dominated PC industry....
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