Apple needs to watch out, as the big tech crown it had has been taken. For the first time in more than six years, Google's parent company Alphabet has overtaken Apple in global market capitalisation, showing a giant change in the balance of power among the world's largest technology companies.
Now, Alphabet's valuation hovers near $4 trillion (£3.2 trillion approx), nudging ahead of Apple's figure as of early January 2026. This achievement shows not just investor confidence for Alphabet's strong performance over the past year, but also a huge transformation in the tech industry led by AI and cloud services.
