5 Most Valuable Technology Companies in the World

2. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)

Market Cap: $1.749 trillion

Microsoft ranks 2nd in our list of the 15 most valuable technology companies in the world. Founded in 1975, Microsoft built its way up to serve the global software and computer market. Microsoft is the world’s largest cloud computing company, offering intelligent cloud applications, which is advanced computing supported by the public cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technology for any intelligent application or device. Microsoft’s second-quarter revenue from Intelligent Cloud alone was $14.6 billion. 

Based on an article by The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Corp. is in negotiations to buy Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, to expand its X-box creation community. In a different story, Microsoft was awarded a $22 billion deal to supply its HoloLens virtual reality headsets to US Army combat troops.

The company’s revenue in the second quarter of 2021 increased 17% to $43.1 billion. Shares of MSFT climbed 55% over the past twelve months.

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