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+Moon, +Venus, +Jupiter and the +Milky Way Galaxy seen over ESO’s Very Large Telescope from Earth

14/04/2012

EMC: $59.95 billion Buoyed by cloud computing and ‘big data’, EMC is currently going through a purple patch and expects a strong showing in terms of revenues. As more and businesses, big and small climb aboard the IT as a service model that has cloud computing at its core EMC stands to benefit. Initially just focused on data storage, the company offers most of the hardware and software services required for businesses to switch to the IT as a ...

14/04/2012

Amazon: $88.46 billion The e-commerce company started by Jeff Bezos began by selling books, but now sells almost anything that can be sold online. It has also diversified, offering cloud computing based services and hardware devices like the Kindle. Amazon has been successful in all its diversifying and at the same time growing its core e-commerce business.

14/04/2012

Cisco: $108.9 billion Cisco is the global leader in networking and its hardware is at the heart of the internet. The company has been through its share of ups and downs and last year announced a series of layoffs. John Chambers, its CEO believes that all future growth will be dependent on international markets, especially emerging markets such as India and Brazil. Expecting significant business coming its way from Brazil, Cisco announced that its...

14/04/2012

Qualcomm: $113.65 billion The mobile phone chip giant Qualcomm has a rich history of innovation. Currently it has set its sights on entering the PC microprocessor market which is a big decision considering that its core business is that of mobile chipsets. But considering its past performance, this should be another market that it will crack.

14/04/2012

Intel: $140.19 billion Moore’s Law on computing power doubling in complexity every two years may not still hold true. But Intel is at the bleeding edge when it comes to innovation in the microprocessor industry. It has been continuously introducing new architectures every few years that increases computing capability and at the same time reduce power consumption. But in a world where new computing devices like tablets and smart phones are ...

14/04/2012

Oracle: $148.56 billion The enterprise software and hardware company started off selling database systems and has grown from strength to strength mainly through a string of acquisitions. The biggest of which were PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and Agile Software. Larry Ellison, its charismatic co-founder-CEO has been at the helm throughout its history.

14/04/2012

Google: $163.11 billion The search giant was once the top of the heap in terms of technological cool and innovation. That title is now a two-horse race between Facebook and Apple. But Google continues to be one of the hottest technology companies globally. Its big bets are Google+, which is its attempt at social media and Andriod, its mobile effort.

14/04/2012

Microsoft: $264.48 billion Some would say no Microsoft, no PC industry. The iconic company that was the poster child of the PC revolution continues to crank up huge revenues and profits. It survived the browser wars with Netscape and now battles Google, Apple and Facebook for technological supremacy.