Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world's biggest company
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Most companies that have reached a $1 trillion market capitalization have been tech companies like Microsoft and Apple.
Amazon.com Inc. has officially dethroned Walmart Inc. as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1994 as an online bookseller in Jeff Bezos’ Seattle-area garage.