Most Powerful Tech Companies By Profits
1. Apple
Cupertino, California, USA- $1 trillion market value. 64% of Americans own an Apple product, 100 million Mac user. Founded in 1976 by Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Jobs. Computer hardware and software, information technology. 137,000 employees.
2. Google/Alphabet
Mountain View, California, USA – $830 billion market value, 87% of search engine use worldwide, 1.5 billion users world wide monthly. Founded in 1993 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. 123,000 employees.
3. Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA, $800 billion, 120 million Office business users, 400 million Windows 10 users. Founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Computer software. 156,000 employees.
4. Facebook
Menlo Park, California, USA – $600 billion, 1 billion monthly users, 2 billion active users. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. 48,000 employees.
5. Tencent
Shenzhen, China, search engine, internet, social networking, video games, 62,000 employees.
6. IBM
Armonk, New York, USA, 381,000 employees.
7. SAP
Germany, software
8. Samsung
Suwon, South Korea Multinational. Founded in 1938. Electronics, TVs, laptops, cell phones. 309,000 employees.
9. Amazon
Seattle, Washington, USA. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. 840,000 employees.
10. Cisco
networking hardware and software.
11. Oracle
enterprise software, cloud computing, computer hardware
12. Intel
Santa Clara, California, USA, semiconductors, 107.000 employees.
13. Foxconn (Hon Hai)
New Taipai City, Taiwan, electronics and iPhone manufacture, 667,000 employees.
14. Huawei
Shenzhen, China, 188,000 employees.
15. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
semiconductor foundry
16. Alibaba Group Holding
China, e-commerce
From Technology Magazine.com, Top 10 most powerful tech brands, Tom Wadlow. (6/10 from Silicon Valley, California, USA)
From Theras A.G. Wood, 8-4-2020, “The World’s Tech Giants Ranked by Brand Value” – 14/20 were from the USA, 4/20 from China.
From Wikipedia, Top Technology Companies
statista, Values of the top 20 technology brands worldwide in 2020
Historically, profits defined the most powerful company of the world.
Money talks and money, especially profits, defines the most powerful businesses. 3 banks from China (ICBC, CCB, and ABC), Apple Inc, JPMorgan Chase and Co, General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Toyota, Samsung, Berkshire Hathaway, and Walmart are the top 11 companies in the world in terms of profits. (Forbes, MBA Central.org).
MSN,com list of 50 Companies Who Rule the World: 1) Apple 2) Amazon 3) Google 4) Samsung 5) Facebook 6)Microsoft 7) Walmart 8) Mercedes Benz 9) Toyota 10) BMW
Investopedia ranking of public companies by market capitalization: 1) Apple 2) Microsoft 3) Exxon Mobil 4) Berkshire Hathaway 5)Google 6) Johnson and Johnson 7)PetroChina 8) Wells Fargo 9) Walmart 10)Alibaba
Business Week magazines’ special report, “The World’s Most Influential Companies” in alphbetical order: Apple, Google, Huawei, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto, News Corporation, Saudi Aramco, Toyota, Unilever, Walmart
Fortune’s :World’s Most Admired Companies: 1) Apple -13 straight years 2) Amazon 3) Microsoft 4) Walt Disney 5) Berkshire Hathaway 6) Starbuck’s 7) Alphabet/Google 8) JPMorgan Chase 9) Costco Wholesale 10) Salesforce
Now increasingly, experts are pointing toward another business power factor: DATA.
Data is in many ways more difficult to measure than dollars. While some data is structured, most data is unstructured. There is data storage and also there is data communication. From my blog: “The Primacy of Data,” we know that data is at least as important as the other technology classes combined. The acceleration of technology since 1450, the Big Surge of Technology, comes from the effects of major data inventions. Further, the recent explosion of data adds to the increasingly powerful effects data has on our daily lives.
According to Technavio blog 2018, the Top 10 Data Centers in the World: Google, Amazon Web Services, Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Microsoft, Apple, China Telecom, IBM, NTT Communications.
According to Whizlabs, 2019 the Top 10 Big Data Companies to Target in 2019: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Teradata, Oracle, SAP, HP Enterprise, VMware, Splunk
What is the most powerful company in the world?
Google (Alphabet) is a highly profitable company that exerts more control over more data in more ways for more people than any company in the world. In conclusion, nearly everyone in the modern industrial world is impacted by the data power of Google. Above all, data is power.
