You can see The Top Ten 2011 Patent Leadres in Flicker.
Have you succeeded to find Apple in that image?
If not, you have a good reason to read my post:
Vendors Survival: Will Apple Survive until 2021?
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Electronic Social Networking Services like Facebook are very popular.The
distinction between Social Networks services and similar Business services
like Linkedin are not clear. Businesses use Facebook for commercial purposes
and sometimes Linkedin users use it for social purposes. The identity of
services such as Twitter is not clear as well: it is used for commercial and
for social purposes.
Usage of Social Networking Services in an Enterprise context is not as simple
as using it in a Consumer context. Google's Steve Yege's post published
incidentally to an external Google+ ci... (more)
Searching the Web
Search Engine is Google's most strategic product. Some of its other products
are using it as component of the services they provide.
Limitation or failure of it, as described in Why we desperately need a New
(and Better) Google cited in part1 of this post, could negatively affect
Google's market position.
This is a major challenge facing Google. Google has no control of some of the
factors limiting its effectiveness.
Challenges in Searching the Web
The following bullets describe major Web Data problems, which could affect
Web Search:
The data is growing exponentia... (more)
I published a link to my post "Choosing a SOA Consultant" in Ulitzer.
Ulitzer is a "new media" site.
The site provides a portal like page for every author. You can look at my
page as an example.
Each article's page includes related articles. For example "Choosing a SOA
Consultant" page includes the article Anatomy of a Cloud Consultant - What
Defines A "Cloud Expert?, written by Reuven Cohen, a leading Cloud Computing
expert.
The interesting article demonstrates deep understanding of Cloud Computing
and I do agree with most of the ideas expressed in it.
However, I have different... (more)
The answer yes seems as an obvious answer to the question in the title of
this post.
Apple, formerly Apple Computers, is very successful company. The following
articles are glances about how successful it is:
Apple Is Now Worth More Than Intel And Microsoft Combined
Apple unseats Microsoft as world’s biggest tech company
Apple now 4th largest phone maker worldwide
Even by reading only the articles' titles you will be impressed.
It is the mindshare leader in the growing markets of Smart Phones and
Tablets, as well as the Music devices market.
Anyone's ten years predictions could b... (more)