Apple was admired even before Wednesday’s introduction of its iPad 2 tablet , as the company finished atop Fortune‘s list of the World’s 50 Most Admired Companies for the fourth consecutive year.
Other companies from the tech and media sectors that made the list were: Google (No. 2), Amazon.com (7), Microsoft (9), IBM (12), Disney (14), Cisco Systems (28), Intel (32), Samsung Electronics (38), Netflix (40), eBay (45), Sony (46), and Oracle (48).
