Labels: econ help, microeconomics, opportunity cost, PPF. PPF is an acronym for a production possibility frontier. This means that the associated graph shows the maximum combination of goods that can be produced in a given amount of time with a given amount of resources.
Forbes has ranked Apple as the biggest tech company in the world in 2016Getty. Apple has once again emerged as the biggest technology company in the world. The iPhone-maker has beaten rivals such as Samsung, Microsoft and Google's parent company Alphabet to maintain its spot.
Gates, who built the world's largest software business with partner Paul Allen, topped the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world from 1995-2007 and again in 2009. Then Bloomberg.com announced in 2013 that Gates was once again the world's wealthiest with a net worth of $72.7 billion, an increase of almost 19 percent from 2012.