GROWING TECH COMPANIES IN THE WORLD (PART 1)
“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.”
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web.
Today in this blog of mine we are going to talk about ten companies based on technology that are competing with each other in this race to the top during this crisis. As we all know that during this period when we all are bound to sit at our homes due to the circumstances arisen because of this crisis, we are very much using Technology or AI in one way or the other.
Today's Technology is a booming market full of exciting, innovative, and new learning opportunities.
Aren't you motivated to generate or start something new? How about if you come up with a great new idea? What if some of these companies inspire you to start something new? Find out facts about these companies, what are their latest products, etc.
#1 Apple Inc.
Latest product- a new iPad Pro, the iPhone SE (2020), a MacBook Air with improved keyboard, a new 13 in MacBook Pro (also with the improved keyboard), as well as update the processors for the 27in iMac.
#2 Microsoft
Market Capital- $1.61 trillion
Industry- software development, hardware, electronics, cloud computing, etc.
Annual revenue- $143 billion
Employees- 156,439
Microsoft is the second largest technology company due to its market capitalization, also the most expensive one too ! Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA.
This famous corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They suggested using packaged software for home computers to make PC experience easy, user-friendly, and intuitive. And so, the Windows operating system was born. It brought Microsoft an incredible success and huge profits.
Since then the company has diversified its range of products and expanded its market. Today Microsoft is found in most of the laptops, computers, smartphones, etc. and it offers many types of services such as meeting apps, operating software, electronics, business solution apps and many more.....
Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Some of its leading apps are Office 365, Teams, Skype, etc.
Latest products- Microsoft unveiled the Surface Pro 7, the Surface Laptop 3, the Surface Earbuds and the Surface Pro X. It also announced the Surface Neo, a two-screened laptop,and Surface Duo phone, a two-screened phone which runs Android.
#3 Amazon inc.
Market Capital- $ 1.59 trillion
Industry- e-commerce, consumer electronics, digital distribution, cloud computing, etc.
Annual revenue- $ 280.5 billion
Employees- 1,000,000 (July 2020)
Amazon takes third place on our rating by market value. It has the highest employee number in the tech sector as well.
Besides, Amazon is one of the companies with the most expensive stocks. The price of one Amazon share is more than $3,000. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world" as well as the world's most valuable brand.
Some may say that Amazon is more of a retail seller than a tech company. Fair enough. Still, it has a computing division that brings about 15% of revenue annually. And let's not forget that the main product of the company is the online shopping service.
The company was established in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Recently Jeff Bezos the owner of amazon became the richest man in the world with a capital of $ 190 billion.
Amazon has introduced a cloud computing platform which helps startups, enterprises government, etc. It also owns a video on demand organisation on internet called Amazon prime video.
Latest product- Too many (computer whirring while searching)
#4 Alphabet Inc.
Probably many of you have heard about google but very less of you would have heard that in 2015 this internationally famous internet giant changed its official name to Alphabet .
It is a American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain view, California. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Today more than thirty popular services and sub companies are part of the Alphabet holding. Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.
Latest product- not launches products but gives funds and reources to projects which are ambitious and have a good potential to lead the market by attracting audience, basically Alphabet is a type of investor or fund provider which is the parent company of google.....
#5 Facebook
Market capital- $800 billion
Industry- Social media, Online advertisement
Annual revenue- $71.2 billion
Employees- 44,942
If you are an adult person and don't have a account on Facebook then i must say that either you don't know that how to create a account or you are a Luddite. Well even you reading this blog then you ain't a Luddite.
This tech company will make you glad and flabbergasted as it is owner of the most trusted messaging app called Whatsapp and one of the most interesting app called Instagram.
Facebook remains the world's most widely used social media platform, but there are now six social media platforms that claim more than one billion monthly active users each. Four of these six platforms are owned by Facebook. Facebook has 2.603 billion monthly active users.
Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Mark comes at the fourth third place in the list of worlds richest man. Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, USA.
Recently Facebook has invested $5.7 billion in the company Jio which is owned by the worlds 5th richest man called Mukesh Ambani.
Latest feature/update- Facebook's Messenger app for desktop is brand new, and it allows users to engage in group chats and group videos from their computers and laptops.
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