Statistics
from Dow Jones has revealed that Google is the most talked about company of the
year 2013 after overtaking Apple which moved from first place last year to
second place this year.
Infographics
from Dow Jones revealed that Google was mentioned 123,769 times while Apple
which came second was mentioned 120,451 times.
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| Most talked about companies of 2013. Image: Dow Jones |
Dow Jones
used its DJX Factiva’s extensive news archive to track coverage of all
companies in The Global Dow in global and print publication. This was gathered
between January 1, 2013 and December 1, 2013.
Apple was
first last year with 165,100 mentions while Google had 114,954 mentions in
2012. Apple had 130,511 mentions in 2011 while Google had 104,071 mentions.
Microsoft had
84,174 mentions to make it the third most talked about company of the year
2013.
It was
gathered that the highest number of mentions came for Google in the month of
May when it had its developer conference. Expectedly, Apple’s highest number of
mentions was in September when it announced its new products; iPhone 5S and 5C,
iOS7.
Google is the
company behind Android operating system which has over 80% of the smartphone
market and Google Search which has about 70% of the search market. Of course,
there are other interesting projects like Google Glass, Driverless cars, white
space internet and so on.
Other
companies that made the top ten include Bank of America which came in at
fourth, Boeing, Citigroup, and BP which came in at fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.
The top ten is completed by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and IBM.
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Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013