Apple to mark 40 years after rise from California garage to tech giant.
Apple has risen from a three-man California garage startup to the most valuable company in the world, estimated to be worth more than 700 billion US dollars (£486 billion).
Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1, 1976 as they set about selling computer kits to hobbyists, each of which was hand-built by Mr Wozniak.
In contrast, today the company has more than 480 retail stores in 18 countries worldwide and reported income of more than 18 billion US dollars (£12.4 billion) for the first quarter of this year.
