Google parent Alphabet may soon overtake Apple as most valuable company

Apple has already acknowledged the iPhone will begin this year with its first quarterly sales decline since it debuted in 2007.
As the digital advertising market booms and demand for smartphones wanes, Alphabet Inc. could soon dethrone Apple as the world’s most valuable company.
If it happens, Alphabet will move to the head of the class just five months after Google reorganized itself under the holding company. The Silicon Valley rivals could trade places soon, given how rapidly the finan