The World’s Big 5 Tech Companies FAAMG | GAFAM or FAANG
The Big 5 tech giants rule worldwide called FAAMG, FAANG acquisition of these companies.
GAFAM Big 5 Tech Companies across worldwide
The 21st century is the Tech era, so everyone is aware of technology and use in daily life. In market there is huge competition b/w the companies to became tech giants. Some tech companies rule over the market from the past years these companies called FAAMG/ GAFAM or FAANG. Are you wondering what’s these words means, so let’s have a look the article below. FAAMG (or GAFAM) stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google(Alphabet). Sometimes its referred as FAAAM, where 3rd A is abbreviated as Alphabet (Google parent company since 2015).
1. Facebook
Type: Social Networking Site
Established: 4 February, 2004
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Key Persons: Mark Zuckerberg (CEO), Sheryl Sandberg (COO), David Wehner (CFO)
Revenue: 70.697 billion USD (2019)
Total Assets: 133.376 billion USD (2019)
Headquarter: Menlo Park, California, USA
Subsidiary: FB Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR and 9.9% stake in Jio Platform
No. of Employees: 52,534 (2020)
Alexa Rank: 6th Worldwide (August 2020)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/
2. Apple
Type: Multinational Technology Company
Established: 1 April, 1976
Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
Key Persons: Tim Cook (CEO), Arthur D. Levinson (Chairman), Jeff Williams (COO)
Revenue: 260.174 billion USD (2019)
Total Assets: 338.516 billion USD (2019)
Headquarter: 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, USA
Subsidiaries: Beats Electronics, Claris, Apple Energy LLC, Anobit, and Beddit
No. of Employees: 137,000 (2019)
Alexa Rank: 54 Worldwide (August 2020)
Website: https://www.apple.com/
3. Amazon
Type: Multinational Technology Company (a big ecommerce company)
Established: 5 July, 1994
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Key Persons: Jeff Bezos (President, CEO & Chairman), Werner Vogels (CTO)
Revenue: 280.522 billion USD (2019)
Total Assets: 225.248 billion USD (2019)
Headquarter: Seattle, United States
Subsidiaries: AWS, AbeBooks, A9.com, IMDb, Amazon Studios, Alexa Internet, Audible, and Amazon Robotics
No. of Employees: 840,400 (2020)
Alexa Rank: 12th worldwide (August 2020)
Website: https://www.amazon.com/
4. Microsoft
Type: Multinational Technology Company
Founded: 4 April, 1975
Founders: Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Key Persons: Satya Nadella (CEO), John W. Thompson (Chairman), Bill Gates (Technical Advisor), Brad Smith (President)
Revenue: 143 billion USD (2020)
Total Assets: 301 billion USD (2020)
Headquarter: One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, United States
Subsidiaries: LinkedIn, Skype, SwiftKey, GitHub, etc. Xbox Game Studios, Adallom, and CyberX
No. of Employees: 151,163 (2020)
Alexa Rank: 24th Worldwide (August 2020)
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/
5. Google (Alphabet)
Type: Multinational Technology Company (search engine)
Founded: 4 September, 1998
Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Key Persons: Sundar Pichai (CEO), Ruth Porat (CFO) and John L. Hennessy (Chairman)
Revenue: 161.857 billion USD (2019)
Total Assets: 275.9 billion USD (2019)
Headquarter: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
Subsidiaries: Google Fiber, Google, Calico, CapitalG, Waymo, DeepMind, GV, Wing, and X etc.
No. of Employees: 123,050 (2020)
Alexa Rank: 1st Worldwide (August 2020)
Website: https://www.google.com/
There are other acronym like FAANG which include Netflix and exclude Microsoft and make a place in big 5 tech giants. another variant is FANGAM which means Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
