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1. 2018
THE WORLD'S TOP
TECH LEADERS
A Complete Insight

2. Table of content
I. Overview
II. Top 25 World’s Largest Tech Companies in 2018 by Market Cap
III. Top 15 Tech Companies in 2018 by Revenue
IV. Top 20 Occupations in Tech Companies in 2018
V. Top 10 Tech Jobs That Will Have Most Demand by 2020
VI. Top 20 Valuable Technology Brands in 2018
VII. Top 6 Tech Stocks to Buy in 2018
VIII. Conclusion
The World’s Top Tech Leaders 2018 - A Complete Insight
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Overview1
Top 25 World’s Largest Tech Companies in 2018 by Market Cap2
There are hundreds of thousands of tech companies in the world. As usual, the U.S. always secures first
place in the world’s largest tech companies. Asian companies are slowly inching to enter this list. Apple
remains at the top position in the tech environment by ranking as the largest tech company in the world by
market cap.
Alphabet made it to the second place whereas Microsoft, yet again occupied the number three spot in
2018. There is no new entrant this year, but the previous entries are continually juggling with their position
to reach the top. Take a look at this chart to know more about all the top companies and their size.
Today, technology as a whole is influencing all the activities of human life. Now the world is at a tipping
point since many of the global challenges are resolved using high-end machinery and software. The tech-
nology companies are playing a significant role in this uprising. These industries have become one among
the fundamental driving forces that fuel the country’s economy.
The United States is known as the largest tech market in the world. It represents 31% of the total, that is
approximately $1.5 trillion in the year 2018. Whereas, the Asia-Pacific region - Japan, China, India, Austral-
ia, and other surrounding nations takes the one-third share of the total. The technology market is expected
to grow continuously at a rapid phase in the future.
This research report contains the statistical overview of the top technology companies worldwide. The
chief objective of this report is to help the marketers and decision makers for more accurate targeting as
well as sufficient allocation of resources.

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Rank
nk
Company Name Employee
Count
Headquarter
Apple 123,000 (2017) California, U.S.
Alphabet 89,058 (2018) California, U.S.
Microsoft 131,300 (2018) Washington, U.S.
Tencent 44,796 (2017) Shenzhen, China
Facebook 30,275 (2018) California, U.S.
Samsung 489,000 (2014) Seoul, South Korea
Intel 106,000 (2017) California, U.S.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) 46,968 (2016) Taiwan
Cisco 72,790 (2017) California, U.S.
Oracle 138,000 (2018) California, U.S.
IBM 380,300 (2017 New York, U.S.
NVIDIA 11,528 (2018) California, U.S.
SAP 88,543 (2017) Weinheim, Germany
Adobe 17,000 (2017) California, U.S.
Texas Instruments 29,714 (2017) Texas, U.S.
Broadcom 14,000 (2017) California, U.S.
Accenture 449,000 (2018) Dublin, Ireland
Tata Consultancy Services 394,998 (2018) Maharashtra, India
Salesforce 30,145 (2017) California, U.S.
Qualcomm 33,800 (2017) California, U.S.
ASML 19,200 (2017) Veldhoven, Netherlands
Sony 117,300 (2018) Tokyo, Japan
Micron Technology 34,100 (2017) Idaho, U.S.
Applied Materials 18,400 (2017) California, U.S.
Nintendo 5,501 (2018) Kyoto, Japan
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[Source: Global Data & Wikipedia]

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If you glance the list of top tech companies by revenue, you will note that it is dominated by American
names followed by Chinese, Korean, and Japanese company. These names shown below are extracted from
the Fortune Global 500 list 2018.
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Top 15 Tech Companies in 2018 by Revenue3
Rank Company Fiscal Year Revenue($B) USD Headquarter
1 Apple Inc. 2017 $229.2 Cupertino, CA, US
2 Samsung Electronics 2017 $211.9 Suwon, South Korea
3 Amazon.com 2017 $177.8 Seattle, WA, US
4 Foxconn 2017 $154.7 New Taipei City, Taiwan
5 Alphabet Inc. 2017 $110.8 Mountain View, CA, US
6 Microsoft 2018 $110.360 Redmond, WA, US
7 Huawei 2017 $89.3 Shenzhen, China
8 Hitachi 2017 $84.5 Tokyo, Japan
9 IBM 2017 $79.1 Armonk, NY, US
10 Dell Technologies 2017 $78.6 Round Rock, TX, US
11 Sony 2017 $77.1 Tokyo, Japan
12 Panasonic 2017 $72 Osaka, Japan
13 Intel 2017 $62.7 Santa Clara, CA, US
14 LG Electronics 2017 $54.3 Suwon, South Korea
15 JD.com 2017 $53.9 Beijing, China

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Top 20 Occupations in Tech Companies in 20184
The recent study revealed that mobile application developers would have a good time since this role saw
an employment growth by 30% in 2018. We extracted a list of 20 such tech jobs from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics that may see a huge rise this year as well.
Rank Occupation Employee Growth Outlook
1 Mobile Application Developer 30.7%
2 Information Security Analyst 28.5%
3 Web Developer 15%
4 Cloud Solutions Architect 12%
5 Applications Architect 12%
6 Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer 11.5%
7 Data Scientist 11.5%
8 Information Technology Manager 11.5%
9 Business Intelligence Developer 11.5%
10 Database Administrator 11.5%
11 User Interface Designer 11.3%
12 Software Engineer 11.1%
13 Computer Systems Analyst 9.1%
14 Site Reliability Engineer 8.3%
15 Computer Technical Support Specialist 8.3%
16 Computer Network Architect 6.5%
17 Solutions Architect 6.5%
18 Data Architect 6.5%
19 Network Administrator 6.1%
20 Hardware Engineer 5.5%
[Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics]

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Top 10 Tech Jobs That Will Have Most Demand by 20205
The demand for tech jobs will mostly look the same as it did in 2018, with different roles in computer vision
engineering, machine learning, software development, and app development dominating across IT industries.
We listed 10 such most demanding tech jobs according to career site experts and recruiters. Take a look at it.
Rank IT Jobs
1 COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER
2 MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
3 NETWORK ANALYST
4 SECURITY ANALYST
5 CLOUD ENGINEER
6 APP DEVELOPER
7 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) ANALYST
8 DEVOPS LEAD
9 DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
10 USER SUPPORT SPECIALIST
[Source: Tech Republic]

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Top 20 Valuable Technology Brands in 20186
Most valuable American brands have topped the list like every other year. The tech giants such as Google,
Apple, and Microsoft secured the first 3 positions whereas Chinese and Taiwan companies have also occupied
space in this list. Here are 20 such valuable tech brands sorted based on their brand value.
[Source: Statista]
Rank Brand Name
1 Google 302.06
2 Apple 300.6
3 Microsoft 200.99
4 Tencent 178.99
5 Facebook 162.11
6 IBM 96.27
7 SAP 55.37
8 Accenture 33.72
9 Samsung 32.19
10 Intel 28.32
11 Baidu 26.86
12 Oracle 25.8
13 Huawei 24.92
14 YouTube 22.96
15 Cisco 21.33
16 Adobe 17.92
17 Salesforce 17.03
18 LinkedIn 15.66
19 HP 14.8
20 Instagram 14.5
Brand value($B) USD

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Top 6 Tech Stocks to Buy Now7
Tech stocks are a proven way for patient investors to capitalize on businesses that positively affect their way
of life. But finding the best stocks is easier said than done. We listed top 6 tech stocks you can buy this year
and yield a considerable profit from it.
Sl. No Company Headquarter Traded As
1 NetEase (NYSE: NTES) Guangzhou, China
NASDAQ: NTES
NASDAQ-100 Component
2 Micron Technology (MU) Boise, Idaho, U.S.
NASDAQ: MU
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
3 IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC) New York, U.S.
NASDAQ: IAC
Russell 1000 Component
4 Facebook (FB) California, U.S.
NASDAQ: FB (Class A)
NASDAQ-100 component
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
5 Intel Corp. (INTC) California, U.S.
NASDAQ: INTC
NASDAQ-100 Component
DJIA Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
6 Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China NYSE: BABA
[Source: U.S. News & World Report]

10. The top lists mentioned in this report reveals exciting information about technology firms. The U.S. companies
topped almost every list in 2018 whereas China and Korea secured second and third position on average
respectively.
Germany, Ireland, Netherland, and India have also made into the top tech companies list through its revenue
and brand name. We can expect them to see an increase in its position by one or two in the coming years.
Several other countries are also trying to position themselves in this list. Hence we can assume at least a few
new names by 2020.
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Conclusion8
U.S.
Top Tech Leaders
China Japan Taiwan Korea
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