Top 10 Biggest Tech Brands in the Globe

BENGALURU: Ten years back when we got up in the morning, a cell phone had reached our houses. But terms like ‘Whatsapp’ or ‘ping’ were not a part of the colloquial language.

Now, after a decade when we leave the bed in the morning it’s either with a Facebook message from your best friend or checking the status of a film you left for downloading all night in your laptop.

While we whole heartedly accepted the transformation as life became better with these technological adaptations, there have been companies and associations that continuously contributed to this technological renaissance.

Today they these companies have together formed a huge tech industry on a global platform where they are in a constant competition to be the best in service to the consumers. In the run for the best, Apple and Google has maintained the top two slots over the past three years continuously as Interbrand lists.

Here is a list of the biggest tech brands of 2015 as Interbrand lists and Economic Times reports. You will feel a connect to each of them and thus, do not miss it.

Apple

Brand Value: $170.276 billion

A legendary name and a look upon company by the entire tech industry is Apple. Since 1976, the world witnessed the progress of the company starting from its launch of iMac to iPod to iPhone. With an average annual growth of 30pct every year, Apple it’s indeed their innovative technological discoveries that make the brand the most profitable company on earth.

Google

Brand Value: $120.314 billion

‘Google it’ – a phrase that the computer user fraternity has taken up worldwide. The millionaire started the journey as an online search engine and is today into advertising and productivity tools as well. Occupying a total of 72pct of search engine industry, Google started making real money after the launch of their ‘adwords’ which became a facet to large volume of data for users.

Microsoft

Brand Value: $67.67 billion

This American MNC founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen , has been a popular choice for consumers over the past three decades. As Apple and Google tops the list today, none can forget the stock record of Microsoft reaching $620billion in 1999. During the 90s, it was Microsoft that entered most households across the planet as the first desktop they owned. Their attempt to be the best continues with their present global rank as 4.

IBM

Brand Value:  $65.095 billion

The company witnessed a pinnacle of success about a quarter of a century ago. IBM markets computer peripherals, hosting or consultation solutions and social and technological attributes. The company has earned fames like second largest firm by Fortune or the one with highest number of 20 patents consistently. The most accepted and admired discoveries that amazed the world were automated teller machine (ATM), floppy disk, hard disk drive (HDD), Universal Product Code (UPC), magnetic stripe card, SQL and Watson artificial intelligence. 

Samsung

Brand Value:  $45.297 billion

The largest South Korean business conglomerate has endeavored in fields like food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Yet its success story definitely weaves from its electrical equipments. The company launched its first set of advertisements in 2011 and wooped a 76pct profit by the end of the next year. It’s the only company after Apple witnessing a significant monetary hike from the cell phone division.

Amazon

Brand Value:  $37.948 billion

An undisputed e-commerce champion, which started its journey as founder Jeff Bezos and his mini crew packed books over nights to reach up to the gush of orders they received. The same had an active user base of 244million in 2014. Today their products cover a wide range of electronic products, household goods, clothing, art and décor and much more. Their reasonable approach to cost structure and value proposition to customers has made them witness this unbelievable market gains.

Intel 

Brand Value: $35.415 billion

The leaders in the microprocessor industry, this one has not allowed any competitor to take away their market share. They are also the largest chip makers on the global platform. Their mass marketing strategy since 1990s and 2000s, makes a universal household choice for computer users.

Oracle

Brand Value:  $27.283 billion

Among the top notch software developers, Oracle has continued to keep its name. A venture by two computer programmers Larry Ellison and Bob Miner in 1977 today makes them count as one of the best companies in the tech sector. Keeping an eye on the need of the market, Oracle was the first company to launch RDBMS in 1982. Their other excellent discoveries include MySQL, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Collaboration suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware.

HP

Brand Value:  $23.056 billion

Two friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started the business with an audio oscillator as product. Years later, their discovery and success continued with oscilloscope receiving the maximum success. They also turned out very successful in the print machine market. The company had $100billion revenue and 200,000 employees as of 2007.

Facebook

Brand Value: $23.056 billion

A company that will be recalled in history for their fastest growth was started as coding project by Mark Zuckerburg in 2004. An indispensable part of online users, the success of Facebook has been described by Zuckerburg as ““Move fast and break things.”

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