Here is the list of the top 10 IT companies of the world ranked by Forbes and Fortune Global 500. These companies are chosen based on their quality of IT services, business growth, revenue, gross profit, customer reliability, and trust over the years.
The list of the top 10 IT companies in the world has been released by a leading market research firm. The list includes some of the biggest names in the industry including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
These companies are leaders in their respective fields and have made a significant impact on the way we live and work. You will be amazed to see that these
There are many IT companies in the world that provide innovative and cutting-edge products and services. Most of them are involved in introducing new technology. In short, all are growing but in terms of revenue and gross profit, not all are the same.
Considering your eagerness to know about the top 10 companies of the world we are posting this and we have considered only the net worth to rank. But out of these top 10, you can tell all are equally king in their respective area.
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Top 10 IT Companies Of The World
- Apple Inc
- Microsoft Corporation
- Alphabet Inc (Google)
- Amazon
- Meta (Facebook)
- Oracle Corporation
- Accenture
- Tata Consultancy Services
- IBM
- SAP
You might find some changes in revenue while you are reading because these are changing with time.
Please comment if anything is missed updating.
Well, let's discuss the top 10 companies, how they operate, their net worth, and what product lines they have.
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Apple Inc
Who doesn't know Apple? Steve Jobs made this brand so popular that 80% of the people in the world know about Apple. They got so popular because of their products like iPhone and MacBook. Its a hardware, consumer electronics, and software selling company.
Apple Inc was founded on April 1, 1976, as "Apple Computer Company". In 1977 their 2nd computer Apple II became a market hit. Later they introduced Mackbook, iPad, iPhone, and iPods. There are many more products from Apple.
Apple also built their operating systems macOS and iOS for their devices. They started building processor chips recently for their laptops. Which is named M1. Earlier they were using Intel processors.
Apple became the 1st $1 Trillion company in 2018 and made its $2 Trillion mark in just 2 years on 2020. In January 2022 they became a Three Trillion Dollar Company which is an achievement for an IT company. It's an achievement of their 160,000 employees globally.
Apple Net Worth Is US $2,571 Billion
Based on their growth, people's trust, product quality, and reliability we have put Apple Inc. in the first place of the list of top 10 IT companies. They are the best IT company in the USA so far.
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Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft is one of the largest and top 10 IT companies in the world. They are the creator of the Windows operating system which is being used by billions of people throughout the world. In the software industry they are uncomparable and recently they are being the best cloud services company as well with their Azure cloud platform service.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates in April 1975. Bill and his friend Paul Allen started Microsoft. The acquisition of LinkedIn and Skype made them strong in community building. There are 3 Billionaires and 12,000 millionaires among total employee of Microsoft.
You can imagine how big their business is. Well Microsoft has 2,25,000 employees all over the world and their head office is in Washington, USA.
Microsoft Net Worth Is US $2,106 Billion
Among their best product and services, Windows, Azure, Skype, LinkedIn, Xbox and video games etc. are the best selling. Due to the business operation, net worth, growth and popularity Microsoft corporation is the 2nd largest IT company in the world and USA as well.
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Alphabet Inc. (Google)
Everyone is now stick to the ecosystem of Google and they are maintaining the chain in a great manner. Many of us still don't know that Google has changed its business type and formed Alphabet as mother company. Google is now a conglomerate of Alphabet Inc. and Youtube, Maps, Gmail, etc. are the same as Google search engine.
Alphabet Inc. was introduced in public on 2015. Since then all the google services are now a conglomerate of Alphabet Inc.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergei Brin on 1998. When the Google search engine was first introduced. Later they have introduced Gmail, Google+, Maps, Google Drive, Android OS, Pixel, and so on.
Google has more then 100 services which are of different area. One google account and all the services that's amazing and that's how they became so popular in the world. They have created this ecosytem and now people can't think a minute without Google services like search engine, YouTube and gamil.
Alphabet Inc. Net Worth Is US $1,555 Billion
As a group of companies, Alphabet Inc is growing rapidly since 2015. They have reached to 1.5 Trillion dollar value and their growth is outstanding. Alphabet Inc. has 1,45,000 employees throughout the world.
Alphabet Inc. is the 3rd best IT company in the world and 2nd most valued brand after Apple.
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Amazon
Amazon is the leading e-commerce company and no doubt it is the largest. Amazon serves billions of products and millions of sellers are connected through Amazon.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and he is the 10% shareholder of the company. It was founded on July 1994. Amazon is not limited to e-commerce only. They have introduced the OTT platform Amazon Prime Video, Alexa, and Cloud platform which is known as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon is already the king in the e-commerce industry but they are now trying to improvize in IT consultancy services.
Amazon Net Worth Is US $1,366 Billion
Since all the biggest IT companies are now working cloud platform like Apple cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Amazon started AWS and became very competitive in this industry.
According to the stats, Amazon is the 4th largest IT company in the world and has employed 2 million people so far and their head office is in the USA. And to let you know Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world.
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Meta Platforms, Inc (Facebook)
Meta is the 5th largest information technology company in the world which was formerly named as Facebook. After acquiring Instagram & Whatsapp, Facebook Inc. decided to form a mother company which is now Meta.
Facebook, Messenger, Watch, Instagram, Whatsapp and other services are now conglomerate of Meta Platforms. Meta has the vision to integrate all the services into one platform as like metaverse.
Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook who first introduced as Facemesh on 2003. Which was named as Facebook on 2004. Earlier it was a social network. And started earning revenue through advertisement.
Still the primary source of earnings for Meta is advertising since most of the services are free to use yet.
Meta/Facebook Net Worth Is US $430 Billion
Facebook has introduced revenue sharing model for content creator and since then advertisers became more and more attracted to Facebook for promoting their product and services. Facebook has demolished Google+ and other social platforms through their popularity.
Facebook has nearly 100,000 employees and located at different countries. Thoug their head office is in Menlo Park, California, US.
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Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is one of the largest USA-based multinational information technology companies in the world. Oracle's primary business is selling database controlling software, services, cloud services, enterprise software, ERP (enterprise resource planning) solutions, HCM, CRM, and supply chain management (SCM), etc.
There are many more services and solutions they are planning to introduce. They are developing new technologies for their customers and growing on a large scale. Oracle has been the third largest software company in the USA based on its market cap and growth.
Oracle is now the 6th largest IT company in the world.
Oracle Net Worth Is US $212 Billion
Oracle's age is 45 years so far. Larry Ellison, Bob Miner & Ed Oates founded Oracle on 1977. Their headquarter is located in Austin, Texas, USA though they have multiple offices in multiple countries. Oracle has near about 150K employees working currently.
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Accenture
Accenture is one of the top 10 IT companies in the world that are specialized in IT services and consultancy. Accenture was founded on 1989 in Dublin, Ireland. Accenture was named "Anderson Consulting" from 1989 to 2000.
It's a global company having operations in multiple countries throughout the world. Accenture has a good number of services to offer and developing new things through their dedicated researchers. They have more than 700K employees.
Accenture offers Application services, data analytics, digital marketing, artificial intelligence, cloud services, metaverse, BPO, supply chain management, and many more. They have a huge service line to offer and day by day the number of services is increasing.
Accenture Net Worth Is US $212 Billion
Accenture is one of the prominent companies in the current IT industry. Being old players they are growing like Tiger. They have used Tiger Woods as a promotional spokesperson and advertised "Go on, Be a Tiger".
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Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the sister concern of TATA Group. TCS is an Indian-based multinational company providing Information technology services. Their headquarter is located in Mumbai.
TCS was founded by the sons of TATA on 1986. They are operating in 46+ countries with a team of 600K employees which is huge. They are the 2nd largest IT company in India based on market cap and also a valuable brand over the world.
TCS is one of the world's largest employers in the world. They have two big concerns which are TCS BPS and TRDDC.
TCS Net Worth Is US $175 Billion
TCS BPS is a Business Process Services Company that is the third largest IT-based outsourcing company in India. They provide clinical data management, biostatistics, medical writing services, clinical programming, and drug safety services.
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IBM
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is the world's most valuable Information technology company having operations in 173 countries over the world. It's a 100+ years old company which was founded on 1911.
At first, IBM was founded as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and then renamed as IBM on 1924. IBM has a large number of services and products in their pocket.
IBM focuses on cloud computing, data analytics, Big data, IoT, digital workplace, IT infrastructure and cybersecurity. They follow IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS models for their services.
IBM Net Worth Is US $119 Billion
Alphaworks, SPSS, Kenexa, BassRing are the prominent products of IBM and they own The Weather Company for weather forecasting which includes weather.com and Weather underground.
Nearly 300K employees are working for IBM in 173 countries. IBM headquarter is located in Armonk, New York, USA.
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SAP
SAP (System Analysis & Software Development) is the world's leading ERP software vendor and also a prominent Information technology and services company. SAP is a German-based company founded on 1972 and has completed its 50 years of birth.
It is the largest software-based company in Germany, as well as the largest non-American company considering the market cap.
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Along with ERP software, they also provide HCM (Human Capital Management), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), EPM (Enterprise Performance Management), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and BTP Software.
SAP Net Worth Is US $112 Billion
SAP headquarter is located in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany along with local offices in 186 countries all over the world. They have more than 100K employees who are serving more than 450K customers every day.
Factors Considered For Ranking
We have considered a few facts to rank these companies though we are sorry if something is wrong. Please let us know if anything needs to be updated. We have followed Fortune 500 lists as well. Let's what points we have considered for ranking...
- Market Share
- Revenue (Yearly)
- Net Worth
- Market Cap
- Brand Value
- Employment Trends
- Product Lines
- Operating Locations
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