U.S. tech giant Apple became the first American company that saw its market cap hit 1 trillion U.S. dollars in the U.S. history.

 

美国科技巨头苹果公司成为美国历史上首个市值达到1万亿美元的公司。

 

Investors¹ pushed Apple's market capitalization over the 1-trillion-dollar threshold amid expectations of new iPhones to be launched this fall, plus a record third-quarter financial report that the California-based company garnered² a whopping 53.3 billion dollars in revenue.

 

Apple gained 11.5 billion dollars in profit, a growth of 32 percent in profit over the same period of last year.

 

The Silicon³ Valley giant's stock has grown by more than 50,000 percent since it was first publicly listed on U.S. stock market in 1980, and its current market value outgrows⁴ the combined capitalization of U.S. oil behemoth Exxon Mobile Corporation, top U.S. telecom operator AT&T, and American multi-national consumer goods company Procter & Gamble. 

 

The Apple business empire, which started from scratch at a garage by its founder⁵ Steve Jobs in 1976, has evolved from a traditional manufacturer of Mac personal computers into a leader in mobile telecom industry after it launched the revolutionary iPhone in 2007 that completely changed people's way of communication and defined the development orientation⁶ of cell phone devices.

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