Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, August 2nd 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Apple hits a trillion. A Midwestern unicorn cashes in, the Surface Go reviews are in,

there are no perfect tools for meme making, and Tesla is adding video games to its cars. Here's what

you missed today in the world of tech.

So Apple finally did it y'all by briefly trading at $2007.5

earlier today Apple officially became the first company in the history of the world

to be valued at more than a trillion dollars.

There's not really that much more to say other than that, but everyone had to do a piece on it today so everybody

had to find an angle as is my want I'm going to go with the history angle. Most

people believe adjusted for inflation that John D Rockefeller's standard

oil would have been worth a trillion dollars in today's money back when it was at

its height. The very first publicly traded company that went public on the world's first ever stock exchange was the Dutch East India company.

I saw some estimates today that said it would be worth 7.4 trillion in today's money. But most people feel like the most

valuable company of all time was the British East India company which once owned all of India. had its own army, which was larger than the British

army, and collected its own taxes.

Yeah, if you own the entire subcontinent, that's probably worth quite a bit more than just a trillion

dollars.

Cisco is buying Duo Security for 2.35 billion in cash.

Duo Security is a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication services.

Duo lets employees use their own devices for what is known as adaptive authentication.

Instead of key cards or security codes, workers can use their own phones or whatever device they

have on them at the time.

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