Apple, Google win top awards at AO Innovation Summit

Apple won the Top Innovation Award for its iTunes Music Store at AlwaysOn 2003: The Innovation Summit, which was held July 15-17 at Stanford University. Google was named the Company of the Year and the Consumer Technology Company of the Year at the event. “AO editors compiled the list with assistance from KPMG’s emerging business practice, KPMG 1Start,” notes the publication. “The two groups surveyed more than 1,000 venture investors, investment bankers, top entrepreneurs and executives, who nominated more than 700 companies for the competition.”