The 10 most influential technology companies in the world in 2022

Civilization and industrialization are both driven by technology and technological innovation. Technology has impacted every aspect of life and society, making society more civilized and modern.

As powerful enablers of digital transformation around the world, the following 10 tech giants are helping solve almost every problem that occurs globally.

10. Meta/Facebook (US)

Year of establishment: 2004

CEO:Mark Zuckerberg

Field:Social media, online advertising,…

Revenue in 2022:118.115 billion USD.

Meta Inc. is an American social media and technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It is considered one of the top 5 technology companies in the United States along with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Meta currently has about 72,000 employees and is considered one of the most valuable companies in the world.

At its annual Connect 2021 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new brand name Meta, replacing the old Facebook brand. The move is intended to distance itself from the crisis-ridden social media company and transform itself into a future-oriented innovator of a new digital world, called the metaverse.

A hybrid of today’s online social experiences, virtual universes allow for shared, immersive experiences with others, opening up the possibility of doing things together that we can’t do in the real world. The company also announced tools to help people build virtual universes, including a mixed reality presence platform and a $150 million investment to train the next generation of content creators. According to Zuckerberg, virtual universes will be “an embodied internet where you experience it, not just look at it.”

9. Alibaba Group (China)

Year of establishment: 1999

CEO:Daniel Zhang

Field:E-commerce, retail, cloud computing,…

Revenue in 2022:134,567 billion USD.

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Alibaba is a group specializing in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, shopping tool development, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Not only that, Alibaba also acquires companies in the fields of entertainment, sports, media. Alibaba Group's mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere from commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment as well as innovation and creativity. Currently, Alibaba is a global group with 22,000 employees and about 90 offices worldwide.

As one of the largest virtual trading platforms in China and the world, the company is attracting buyers' attention with its affordable prices and wide range of goods on display.

8.Tata Consultancy Services(India)

Year of establishment: 1968

CEO:Rajesh Gopinathan

Field:Information technology, consulting and business solutions

Revenue in 2022: 26,71billion dollars.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an information technology services, consulting and business solutions company that has been partnering with some of the world's largest enterprises on their digital transformation journey for over 50 years.

A global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions with a vast network of innovation and delivery centers, TCS has 500,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 46 countries; The consulting company is part of the Tata Group, India's largest multinational business conglomerate.

7. SAP (Germany)

Year of establishment: 1972

CEO:Christian Klein

Field: Information technology and services

Revenue in 2022:33,018billion dollars.

SAP is Europe's largest software company, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. Today, SAP is a multinational company with more than 105,000 employees and 230 million cloud users worldwide. In addition, the company offers more than 100 solutions covering all business functions and the world's largest cloud portfolio, with 77% of global transaction revenue related to SAP systems.

6. Deloitte (UK)

Year of establishment: 1845

CEO:Punit Renjen

Field:Consulting, accounting, auditing and finance

Revenue in 2022:60 billion USD

Deloitte is a name that is no longer unfamiliar to anyone interested in the field of accounting, auditing and finance. Deloitte is known to everyone as one of the four companies along with EY, KPMG and PwC providing the largest auditing and consulting services in the world. Deloitte has come a long way of more than 177 years and continues to affirm its position and reputation in the industry with reliable service quality, creating prestige as well as long-term relationships with customers who are famous corporations in the world.

Deloitte has approximately 330,000 people working in more than 150 countries and territories around the world. To address the complex challenges facing society today, Deloitte is taking action through its WorldClass initiative, which aims to help 50 million people worldwide develop the employability skills, improve educational outcomes, and access opportunities to succeed in the digital economy by 2030.

5. IBM (USA)

Year of establishment: 1911

CEO:Arvind Krishna

Field:Information technology, computers and services

Annual revenue2022: 47.09 billion USD

IBM, short for International Business Machines, is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM was founded in 1911 in New York City, originally as Computing Tabulating Recording and changed to International Business Machines in 1924. The company specializes in manufacturing and selling computer hardware, software, infrastructure, hosting services and consulting in a wide range of areas from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

With over 350,000 employees, IBM is the world's largest IT company. IBM has engineers and consultants in 170 countries. IBM also has 8 laboratories around the world. IBM employees have won 5 Nobel Prizes, 5 Turing Awards (the Nobel Prize of Information Technology), and 5 National Medals of Technology.

IBM has recently announced the world’s most powerful quantum processor, which is designed to “solve previously unsolved problems.” IBM’s 433-qubit Osprey processor is more powerful than any previous processor of its kind and more than three times more powerful than the company’s Eagle (127 qubits) version introduced last year. The machine has the potential to run complex quantum calculations beyond the computational capabilities of conventional computers.

4. Apple (USA)

Year of establishment: 1976

CEO:Tim Cook

Field:Consumer electronics, hardware, software, information technology,…

Revenue in 2022:394.328 billion USD

Apple is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big 5 companies in the American information technology industry, along with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.

Apple's prominent hardware product lines include iPhone smartphones, iPad tablets, Macbook laptops, Mac personal computers, iPod portable music players, Apple Watch smartwatches, etc.

Apple is the world's largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable. It is also the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Huawei. In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded American company to be valued at over $1 trillion, and just two years later, in August 2020, it became the first company to be valued at $2 trillion. The company currently employs 147,000 full-time employees and operates 510 retail stores in 25 countries.

3. Microsoft (USA)

Year of establishment: 1975

CEO:Satya Nadella

Field:Development of software, hardware, electronics, cloud computing, etc.

Revenue in 2022:198.27 billion USD

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Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that produces personal computers, computer software, consumer electronics, and other technology products. The company is known worldwide for its range of quality and standard technology software such as the Edge web browser, Microsoft Windows Explorer, Windows operating system, and the Microsoft office suite.

After the success of Windows, the company continued to expand its services and markets. By 2020, Microsoft is not only known for Windows 10 but also a formidable name in other fields such as server operating systems, Surface devices, Microsoft 365 office applications, Azure cloud services, management and development tools, XBox games, ...

In particular, in recent years, Microsoft has focused and invested heavily in innovative technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc., striving to become a leader in this field. The company currently employs 181,000 employees worldwide.

2. Google (USA)

Year of establishment: 1998

CEO:Sundar Pichai

Field:Online advertising technology, search engines, cloud computing, software and hardware.

Revenue in 2022:282.113 billion USD

Google is an American multinational technology company headquartered in the Googleplex, Mountain View, California, specializing in Internet-related services and products, including online advertising technologies, search engines, cloud computing, software and hardware. The company currently employs approximately 156,500 people worldwide.

Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services are also in the top 100 most visited websites in the world, including YouTube and Blogger. Google is the most valuable brand in the world as of 2017, but has received significant criticism over issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality.

1.Amazon (USA)

Year of establishment: 1994

CEO:Andy Jassy

Field:E-commerce, consumer electronics, digital distribution, cloud computing…

Revenue in 2022:502.19 billion USD

Amazon is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, the company provides services such as digital streaming, e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

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Moreover, the company has recently begun to build a solid foothold in the cloud computing field with its Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud computing platform. Amazon's cloud computing helps startups, enterprises, governments, and academic institutions build business models through computing, storage, database, and other technology services. Currently, Amazon has more than 1.6 million employees and more than 30 subsidiaries worldwide./.