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10 Most Popular Tech Companies In India
Bangalore:
India undoubtedly is one of the biggest tech hubs in the world. It is
home for big names in tech like Google, Microsoft, Infosys and others.
But then, which of these tech companies are popular with Indian
populous, so much so that, they ultimately want to be part of them?
In a recent survey carried by Nielsen, a global measurement and information provider, most of the engineering students in India wanted to end up in the IT industry and only few tech companies have made it to their wish list.
Read on to know about 10 such tech companies that became the most popular choice for students, as compiled by Nielsen.
# 10 NTPC
NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) is
India's largest power company. It was set up in 1975 to accelerate power
development in India. It is emerging as an ‘Integrated Power Major’,
with a significant presence in the entire value chain of power
generation business.
NTPC ranked 337th in the ‘2012, Forbes Global 2000’ ranking of the World’s biggest companies.
With an electric power generating capacity of 40,674 MW, NTPC has embarked on plans to
become a 75,000 MW company by 2017 and to become a
128,000 MW company by 2032.
# 9 Wipro
Wipro Limited is an information technology (IT) consulting and outsourcing Service Company located in Bangalore. As of 2012, the company had 140,000 employees in 54 countries. Wipro is the second largest IT services company in India. Its subsidiary, Wipro Enterprises Ltd., offers consumer care, lighting, healthcare, and infrastructure engineering.
#8 L&T
Larsen & Toubro Limited, also known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. The company has business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing goods, information technology and financial services.
It has a dominant presence in India's infrastructure, power, hydrocarbon, machinery, shipbuilding and railway sectors. In recent years, L&T has expanded its global presence and international projects contributed 9% of its overall order book for the 2010–11 period.
L&T was recognized as the Company of the Year in 2010 and has been featured four times in Forbes Fab 50 list of the best public companies in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked L&T the world's 9th most innovative company, ahead of Google and Apple Inc.
#7 BHEL
Bharat
Heavy Electricals Limited is an Indian state-owned integrated power
plant equipment manufacturer, and operates as engineering and
manufacturing company. It is based in New Delhi.BHEL formed in 29 August 1956 has ushered indigenous Heavy Electrical Equipment industry in India. It is one of the only 7 mega Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) of India clubbed under the esteemed 'Maharatna' status.
It is engaged in the design, engineering, manufacture, construction, testing, commissioning and servicing of a wide range of products and services for the core sectors of the economy, viz. Power, Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas and Defence. It is the 7th largest power equipment manufacturer in the world. In the year 2011, it was ranked ninth most innovative company in the world by US business magazine Forbes. BHEL is the only Indian Engineering company on the list, which contains online retail firm Amazon at the second position with Apple and Google at fifth and seventh positions, respectively. It is also placed at 4th place in Forbes Asia's Fabulous 50 List of 2010.
#6 FacebookFacebook is the largest social networking service in the world with more than a billion users. Mark Zuckerberg cofounder and CEO of the company has steered the company to its successful first IPO.
He founded the company with roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
#5 IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. Notable inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence.
#4 Tata Consultancy Services
Tata
Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is an Indian multinational
information technology services, business solutions and outsourcing
services company headquartered in Mumbai. TCS is a subsidiary of the
Tata Group and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National
Stock Exchange of India. It is one of India's most valuable companies
and is the largest India-based IT services company by 2012 revenues.
#3 Infosys
Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational provider of business consulting, technology, engineering, and outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is the third-largest India-based IT services company by 2012 revenues. Of this revenue, the majority comes from international business. In 2009, Infosys collected 1.2 percent of its income from the domestic Indian market.
#2 MicrosoftMicrosoft India Private Limited is a subsidiary of US software giant Microsoft Corporation headquartered in Hyderabad. The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 13 cities across India.
Increasingly, the company has become a key IT partner of the Indian government and industry, supporting and fueling the growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs.
The company has about 5,000 people and has six business units representing the complete Microsoft product portfolio.
#1 GoogleGoogle is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits derive from AdWords. The corporation has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world and to process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data each day. In December 2012 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world.
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