Apple Cuts Prices on Apps to Mark 5th Anniversary of App Store

Apple’s App Store has just turned 5 and to celebrate those five years of awesomeness Apple has decided to take off the price tag on certain apps and issue a price cut on several others.

The apps, as it turns out, are among the more popular ones in the App Store so it’s a great chance to get the best on your iOS device.

Here’s a list of the more popular ones among those apps:

• Traktor DJ
• Where’s My Water
• Infinity Blade II
• Barefoot World Atlas
• Tiny Wings
• Badland
• Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery
• Over
• How to cook everything
• Day One

Here’s the entire list of those apps that are offered with discount. Traktor DJ in particular is a great value as it costs $20 normally. How to cook everything is priced at $10.

You better have to hurry as the app price cut might be over in sometime.

The five year period marks some great achievements. The store holds some 900,000 apps, which have been downloaded more than 50 billion times via 575 million accounts.

But perhaps the biggest achievement is the triggering of several other major app stores launches including Google Play and the exploding of the app development business, both of whom aren’t going to end anytime soon.

Samsung is Now the World's 14th Largest Company by Revenue

According to a new report by Forbes, Samsung is now the world’s 14th largest company in terms of revenue. It beats Apple by 5 spots, which is at 19th position with a revenue of $178.6 billion to Apple’s $156.5 billion.

Samsung climbed 6 ranks from 20 while Apple took a quantum leap to jump from 55th to 19th position. It also made double the profit than Samsung, 41.7 billion dollars to 20.6 billion profits made by Samsung.

The list also includes several other tech companies, headed by Toyota at 8th, Phillips at 16th, AT&T at 34th, HP at 43rd, Honda at 45th, IBM at 62nd, China Mobile Communications at 71st and Microsoft at 110th. Amazon is way down at 149th and Nokia, further still at 274th. Here’s the entire list.

Still, comparison between Samsung and Apple will be invalid as Samsung makes a variety of products including home appliances while Apple is almost exclusively a computer and software company.

The list is still topped by Shell, the Petroleum company at $481.7 billion and Wal-Mart at $469.2 billion.

Also one thing to note will be that the profits are only for these companies’ fiscal years which ended on 31st of March 2013 so anything which has happened sooner than that hasn’t made it’s way into that report.