Top 7 tech giants of today’s world
Technology is ruling the world today. And that’s why tech giants are so popular. They are making a significant contribution to making today’s world technology-dependent. In today’s article, we are going to know about the income, market value, and structure of 7 such tech giants. So, let’s start without any delay.
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Google LLC or Google Limited Liability Company is an American multinational technology company. In addition to Google Search, Google’s flagship service, the company expands rapidly with new products, acquisitions, and partnerships. Google’s services include Work & Productivity Services (Google Doc, Sheet and Slides), Email (Gmail / Inbox), Schedule & Time Manager (Google Calendar), Cloud Storage (Google Drive), Social Media (Google+), Instant Mass. Video Chat (Google Allo / Duo / Hangout), Translator (Google Translate), Maps (Google Maps / Wage / Earth / Street View), Video Sharing (YouTube), Note Taking (Google Keep), and Photo Manager (Google Photos), Research Paper (Google Research), Google Home (Speaker), etc. are notable examples. 99% of Google’s revenue comes from the advertising sector. Google’s unofficial slogan is ‘Don’t be evil’.
We know that Google is a search engine. Over time, Google has been able to increase its size and usefulness to people by constantly creating new products and services. At the same time, they have enriched themselves by buying new companies and partnering with different organizations, and consolidating their position in the advertising world. According to Google, they have earned 31.91 billion US dollars in the fiscal year 2017.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational American technology company. Microsoft develops, manufactures, approves, supports, and sells software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. The name “Microsoft” is a combination of “Microsoft” and “Software”. As of 2015, Microsoft is one of the most popular personal computer operating systems in the world, with no other operating system in its vicinity. Microsoft has a market value of 147 billion and employs more than 1, 50,000 people. According to a 2020 report, during the global epidemic of coronavirus, Microsoft announced that 15,000 protective goggles, infrared thermometers, safety suits, and medical caps had been distributed free of charge in Seattle and that more would be distributed in the future.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational technology company. It is headquartered in the United States. The company started as a computing tabulating recording company in 1911, renamed “International Business Machines” in 1924. IBM provides computer hardware, middleware, and computer software manufacturing-marketing and hosting-consulting services for nanotechnology from mainframe computers. IBM is also a significant research organization. As of 2016, IBM has held the most commercial patents in the United States for 25 years. IBM’s inventions include automated teller machines (ATM), PCs, floppy disks, hard disk drives, magnetic strip cards, relational databases, SQL programming languages, UPC barcodes, and more.
Apple
Apple Inc. is a well-known American multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electricity, computer software, and online services. The company’s hardware products include iPhone smartphones, iPod, Mac personal computers, iPod portable media players, Apple smartwatches, and Apple TV digital media players. Apple’s software includes Mac OS and iOS operating systems, iTunes Media Player, Safari Web Browser, and iLife & iWorks, Creative and Productivity Suite, as well as professional applications: Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Exclude. Their online services include iTunes Store, iOS App Store, and Mac App Store, Apple Music, and iCloud. Apple Inc. is headquartered in Silicon Valley.
Amazon
Amazon is a US electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. Amazon.com began operations as an online bookstore but soon began selling a variety of DVDs, VHS, CDs, videos and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, clothing, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. Amazon has separate retail websites in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were also launched. In 2017, Amazon’s total revenue was about 3.033 billion US dollars.
Facebook is a global social networking website, founded on February 4, 2004. It is possible to become a free member. It is owned by Facebook Inc. Users can add friends, send messages and update and exchange their personal information, as well as a user can connect to the city, work, school, and region-based networks. Most of Facebook’s revenue is from advertising. Facebook is the leading social networking site in terms of monthly unique visitors and as a result, it surpassed MySpace in April 2008. Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, a gathering of 8.6 million people. Facebook is a very popular social media. Its market value is about 503.3 billion US dollars.
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American global technology company and is the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue. Intel was founded in 1968 in Mountain View, California. In the 1980s, it was one of the top ten semiconductor sellers in the world. In 1991, Intel was the largest company in terms of revenue as a chipmaker and has maintained its position ever since. Other top semiconductor companies are AMD, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and Este-microelectronics. Intel came up with computers and technology to facilitate the death of Stephen Hawking. It has millions of employees. In 2016, Intel’s revenue was about 9.6 billion US dollars. Its market value is about 246.69 billion US dollars.
From what you have known for so long, it seems that all the money in the world has been taken by these tech giants. Most of the top rich people are associated with one or another tech giant. So, if you know the name of any such tech giant, don’t forget to mention it. So, after reading this article, if you’ve known any new information, then, share it with your acquaintances and if you also know any such information, don’t forget to comment.