. Apple (AAPL) on Monday became the most valuable U.S. company in history - sort of. The company's market capitalization surpassed the previous record of about $619 billion achieved by Microsoft (MSFT) in December 1999, though that figure balloons to $842.5 billion when accounting for inflation.
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