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While many may be misinformed–the top ten IT companies in the world are indeed Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Malaysia, with a couple from Bharat (which had steel and other products to start with).
Founded: 1998
Country: China
Employees: 20,000
Sales: $4.5bn
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Tencent Holdings is China’s biggest Internet company by revenue. Tencent, which started as an instant messaging service in the late 1990s, is also China’s largest online game operator. Tencent in June 2012 bought a minority stake in Epic Games, a developer of 3D game engine technology, and in July purchased a stake in financial news company Caixin Media to increase its content offerings. Last year, it launched online video and expanded e-commerce offerings to take on entrenched players Youku Inc and Alibaba Group.
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Founded: 1968
Country: India
Employees: 243,545
Sales: $9.6bn
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is India’s top IT copmpany. In the previous quarter (Q2 FY 2012-13) TCS net profit grew by 6 per cent to Rs 2,301 crore over the year ago quarter. Revenues grew 25 per cent to Rs 11,633 crore over the year ago quarter as companies in North America and Europe continued to spend, despite worries of a sovereign default in some regions and a slowdown in others. The company closed 10 large deals of $100 millon or more during the second quarter, including from financial services clients, and is chasing 10 more such deals.
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Founded: 1969
Country: South Korea
Employees: 23,501
Sales: $142.4bn
Next on technology company on the list is South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung is South Korea’s biggest, most profitable and most globally recognised brand. Samsung Electronics is the flagship of Samsung Group, a family conglomerate that controls more than 80 companies that includes businesses like building oil tankers and apartment complexes, running hotels and amusement parks and consumer electronics.
The company recently lost patent battle to Apple in the US and has been asked to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple’s patents for iPhone and iPad.
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Founded: 1988
Country: Taiwan
Employees: 108,872
Sales: $36.6bn
Quanta Computer is the world’s largest contract maker of notebook personal computers by revenue. The company designs and manufactures devices for companies such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard Co, Google and Amazon.com Inc. JP Morgan has forecasted Quanta’s revenue to rise 14 percent sequentially in the coming third quarter, while its notebook shipments to grow slowly at zero to 3 per cent, in line with the industry’s average of zero to 2 per cent.
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Founded: 1998
Country: South Korea
Employees: 2,623
Sales: $1.8bn
NHN Corporation the company that runs South Korea’s most widely used Web portal, Naver. The company also operates hangame.co.jp, naver.jp and ijji.com which target users from Japan and the United States. In January 2011, the company established a new
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Founded: 1984
Country: China
Employees: 27,000
Sales: $29.6bn
Lenovo Group Limited is a personal technology company spread across more than 160 countries. The company offers a range of commercial desktops to businesses of all sizes. Its products include laptops, tablets, desktops, workstations and servers. According to a recent Gartner release, the company is the no. 1 PC vendor in India. Recently, Lenovo beat Apple in the three months ending June for the second place in smartphone sales in China.
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Founded: 1991
Country: India
Employees: 84,319
Sales: $3.8bn
HCL Technologies is India’s fourth largest It company. The company’s operations comprises software services, infrastructure services, including sale of networking equipment and business processing outsourcing services. HCL Tech provides solutions across a range of verticals, such as financial services, manufacturing, public services and healthcare. The principal geographical segments include America, Europe and others.
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Founded: 2001
Country: China
Employees: 12,900
Sales: $9.1bn
Digital China Holdings Limited is the China’s largest integrated IT services provider. Digital China provides end-to-end integrated IT services to customers that covers IT planning and consultation, design and implementation of software solutions, outsourcing of IT system operation and maintenance, systems integration, IT distribution and maintenance.
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Founded: 1995
Country: Malaysia
Employees: 2,077
Sales: $1.9bn
DiGi is a Malysia-based mobile communications company providing a comprehensive range wireless services. The company has an established presence as a leader in voice and data prepaid services. It offers services under DiGi Prepaid brand and DiGi Postpaid
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Founded: 1995
Country: India
Employees: 20,892
Sales: $14bn
Bharti Airtel is India’s leading mobile phone company by revenue and subscribers. The company operates in three primary business segments: mobile services, telemedia services and enterprise services. The company has one of strongest balance sheet in Indian telecom sector. Though the company has gained subscribers from smaller rivals, lower average revenue per user (ARPU) continues to trouble the company.
In the previous quarter, the company’s total revenues were up by 14 per cent to Rs 19,350 crore in the quarter from Rs 16,975 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, marked by growth of 31.5 per cent in Africa and 44.2 per cent jump in mobile data revenues from India.
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Founded: 2000
Country: China
Employees: 16,082
Sales: $2.2bn
Baidu is China’s largest internet search engine. Baidu recently has launched a mobile browser. The company also plans to invest in a cloud computing center as growth in internet use shifts to mobile phones.
Baidu is far ahead of Google in China. The company had 78.6 per cent share of Chinese search market in the second quarter of 2012, far ahead of second-place Google Inc with 15.7 per cent, according to rsearch company Analysys International.
