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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs
and sells
consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's
best-known
hardware products are the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the
iPad. Its
software includes the Mac OS X operating system ; the iTunes media browser; the
iLife suite of
multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software;
Aperture, a
professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio
and film-industry
software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari web
browser; and iOS
, a mobile operating system.
As of July 2011, Apple has 357 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store
. It is the
largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization, overtopping
ExxonMobil by
some $60 billion, as well as the largest technology company in the world by revenue
and profit,
worth more than Google and Microsoft combined. As of September 24, 2011, the
company had 60,400
permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees worldwide. ]
Apple's worldwide
annual sales totaled $65.23 billion, growing to $108.249 billion in 2011.
Google Android is a Linux -based operating system for mobile
devices such as
smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led
by Google.
Google
purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005. The
unveiling of the Android
distribution in 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a
consortium of
over
86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies, devoted to advancing open
standards for
mobile
devices. Google releases the Android code as open-source, under the Apache License
. The Android
Open
Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of
Android.
Sonim Technologies Inc. is an American company headquartered in
San Mateo,
California, USA, which manufactures rugged cell phones, VoIP applications and
provides hosted
services. Sonim currently employees over 150 people worldwide, across 15 locations
including
Bangalore, India; London, the United Kingdom; Stockholm, Sweden; and Madrid ,
Spain.
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications
corporation that is
headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo. Nokia manufactures mobile electronic devices,
mostly mobile
telephones and other devices related to communications, and in converging Internet
and
communications industries, with over 132,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in
more than 150
countries and global annual revenue of over €42 billion and operating profit of €2
billion as of
2010. It was the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones in 2011, with global
device market
share of 23% in the second quarter. [3] Nokia's estimated share of the converged
mobile device
market was 31% in the fourth quarter, compared with 38% in the third quarter of
2010. Nokia produces
mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA ,
and W-CDMA (
UMTS ). Nokia offers Internet services such as applications, games, music, maps,
media and
messaging through its Ovi platform. Nokia's joint venture with Siemens, Nokia
Siemens Networks
produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services. [4] Nokia
also provides
free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly
owned subsidiary
Navteq.
Motorola, Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications
company based in
Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public
companies, Motorola
Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Motorola Solutions is generally
considered to be
the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with
Motorola Mobility
being spun off. Motorola designed and sold wireless network infrastructure equipment
such as
cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and
broadcast network
products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment
used to enable
video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Its
business and government
customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build
private networks),
and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. These businesses
(except for
set-top boxes and cable modems ) are now part of Motorola Solutions.
Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that
designs,
manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services
based on its code
division multiple accesses (CDMA) technology and other technologies. Qualcomm is
headquartered in
San Diego, CA, USA. The company operates through four segments: Qualcomm CDMA
Technologies (QCT);
Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL); Qualcomm Wireless & Internet (QWI), and
Qualcomm Strategic
Initiatives (QSI).
LG Corp is the second-largest South Korean conglomerate company
following Samsung
, and it is headquartered in the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu ,
Seoul. LG
produces electronics, chemicals, and telecommunications products and operates
subsidiaries like LG
Electronics, LG Display, LG Telecom and LG Chem in over 80 countries.