Google has been named as the most talked about company in 2013, edging out Apple, as revealed in a list by Dow Jones.
The list showed that Google was the top company of 2013 with nearly 124,000 media mentions during the year while Apple came close second with nearly 120,500 mentions.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Google received a lot of attention in the news every single month, but its highest month of mentions came in May in which the search giant held its developer conference Google I/O.
Apple's biggest month of media mentions was September, in which the tech giant announced its new products including the iPhone 5s and 5c and latest iOS 7.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Bank of America were ranked third and fourth for more than 84,000 and 71,000 mentions respectively.
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