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The AP has been tracking vote counts in U.S. elections since 1848, including national, state and local races down to the legislative level in all 50 states, along with key ballot measures. The AP collects and verifies returns in every county, parish, city and town across the U.S., and declares winners in over 5,000 contests.

* 1994: AP launches [[Associated Press Television News|APTV]], a global video news gathering agency, headquartered in London.

* 2004: The AP moved its headquarters from 50 Rock to 450 West 33rd Street, New York City.<ref name="AP_PR"/>

* 2008: The AP launched AP Mobile (initially known as the AP Mobile News Network), a multimedia news portal that gives users news they can choose and provides anytime access to international, national and local news. AP was the first to debut a dedicated iPhone application in June 2008 on stage at Apple's WWDC event. The app offered AP's own worldwide coverage of [[breaking news]], sports, entertainment, politics and business as well as content from more than 1,000 AP members and [[third-party source]]s.<ref name="anniversary">The Associated Press (2009-05-21). [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html "AP Mobile rings in one-year anniversary"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219092206/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html |date=February 19, 2010 }}, ''AP'', Press Release.</ref>

* 2010: AP launched multi-device World Cup Soccer Applications providing real-time news coverage of the 2010 World Cup on desktop, Apple and Android devices.

* 2011: AP revenue dropped $14.7&nbsp;million in 2010. 2010 revenue totaled $631&nbsp;million, a decline of 7% from the previous year. AP rolled out price cuts designed to help newspapers and broadcasters cope with declining revenue.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 April 2011|title=AP loses $14.7M in 2010 as revenue falls 7 percent|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-loses-147m-in-2010-as-revenue-falls-7-percent/|access-date=13 January 2021|website=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

* 2012: [[Gary B. Pruitt]] succeeded [[Tom Curley]] to become president and CEO. Pruitt is the 13th leader of AP in its 166-year history.<ref>{{cite news| title= Gary Pruitt, of McClatchy, to become new president and CEO of The Associated Press| url= http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2012/gary-pruitt-of-mcclatchy-to-become-new-president-and-ceo-of-the-associated-press| agency= Associated Press| access-date= 14 December 2012| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121214084533/http://ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/Gary-Pruitt-of-McClatchy-to-become-new-president-and-CEO-of-The-Associated-Press| archive-date= 14 December 2012| url-status= live}}</ref>

* 2016: AP Reports that income dropped to $1.6&nbsp;million from $183.6&nbsp;million in 2015. The 2015 profit figure was bolstered by a one-time, $165&nbsp;million tax benefit.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newspaper decline continues to weigh on AP earnings |url=https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=2018-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055350/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |archive-date=2018-07-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2017: AP moved its headquarters to [[200 Liberty Street]], New York City.