Today: Apple blows away any and all observers with a record-breaking quarterly earnings report, so here’s an attempt at some context for the incredible numbers. Also: Yahoo earnings and Google’s new privacy policy.
There are no words for what Apple just did, so here are a bunch of numbers
The final quarter of 2011 was a historic one for Apple, as the company had the highest earnings in one three-month period of any tech company in history, challenged the record for most profits in one quarter for any U.S. company, and subsequently took the title of most valuable U.S. company from the quarterly-profit record-holder, Exxon.
Here’s an attempt to process all the extravagant numbers Apple threw out Tuesday afternoon.
– Revenue: Apple reported that it hauled in $46.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, nearly double the $26.7 billion it pulled in during the holiday-shopping quarter of 2010. That is the biggest quarterly revenue for a
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