While the best world's sportspersons beat scores and take prize places at the Sochi Winter Olympics, the biggest corporations struggle for global leadership. A few days ago, there was a change in the top three. The search giant Google pulled ahead and occupied the second position among the world’s most valuable companies. It was the most impressive result of Google since its inception. The third one after Google is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company ExxonMobil. Its market cap is $388 billion. The silver medal belongs to Google with stock-market valuation equal to $394 billion. Apple’s market valuation topped out at $472 billion, the highest absolute-value figure in history. Even though by the end of the trading session, the shares of the leading two companies depreciated, ExxonMobil still lost more. Perhaps, somebody won't see a big difference between these results, especially taking into account huge volumes, but it is like in sport – every second matters. Apple has been in the first place for a long time. Market cap of this high-tech giant is a record of $472 billion. The rating reflects changes in the world business field. A few years ago, we could not imagine that computer makers and unique content developers would surpass oil producers. But it happened. Apple became a leader by market capitalization in August 2013 and left ExxonMobil behind. The oil producer had managed to outpace Steve Jobs’ company, but it always won back the title of the most expensive organization in the world.
