Monday, 27 October 2014

Top Billionaires in the field of technology





No.
Name
Net Worth
Source
Founding Date
Listed Date
Short Summary
1
Jack Ma
20.8 Billion
AliBaba
4 April 1999
19-Sep-14
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer & business-to-consumer sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.
2
Masayoshi Son
16.8 Billion
Various
1990
2000
Founder of Asia's leading Internet venture, Softbank, is benefiting from his acquisitions and investments; stock price is up 115%. In October Softbank picked up stakes in Finnish gamemaker Supercell and U.S. mobile phone distributor Brightstar.
3
Azim Premji
16 Billion
Wipro
1945
2000
Wipro Limited (Western India Products Limited) is an Indian multinational IT Consulting and System Integration services company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. On 31 March 2014, its market capitalisation was approximately INR1.27 trillion ($20.8 billion), making it one of India's largest publicly traded company and seventh largest IT services firm globally.
4
Robin Li
15.7 Billion
Baidu
2000
2007
Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language-search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike (an online collaboratively built encyclopedia) and a searchable, keyword-based discussion forum. In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.
5
Ma Huateng
14.8 Billion
Tencent Holdings
12-Nov-98
2004
Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added services, and operate online advertising services in China. Tencent's many services include social network, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. Mobile chat service WeChat has helped bolster Tencent's continued expansion into smartphone services.
6
Niraj Goel
12.95 Billion
Variousi
1989
2010
On July 4 2014, “The Singapore Innovation League” was launched. The league has been created to help technology start-ups that display potential. Niraj Goel has pledged a total of SGD 1.50 billion to this project of creating a silicon valley in Singapore. Notable projects “YAY” , Clone Algo , YAY Smart human devices.
7
Shiv Nadar
11.7 Billion
HCL Group
11-Aug-76
2000
HCL is a global technology and IT enterprise that operates in 31 countries.  The company comprises two publicly listed companies, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. HCL was focused on addressing the IT hardware market in India for the first two decades of its existence with some activity in the global market. HCL Technologies focuses on the global IT services market, whereas HCL Infosystems focuses on the IT hardware market in India and in APAC countries. HCL has since then operated as a holding company.
8
Lee Kun Hee
11.4 Billion
Samsung
1938
1994
Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. In 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the 1990s Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income. Samsung Electronics is the world's largest information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value.
9
Lei Jun
8.8 Billion
Xiaomi
N.A.
N.A.
Privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. It is one of China's biggest electronics companies that designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, and consumer electronics. Since the release of its first smartphone in August 2011, Xiaomi has gained market share in mainland China and expanded into developing a wider range of consumer electronics
10
Lie Qiangdong
7 Billion
JD.com
Jul-98
N.A.
a Chinese electronic commerce company headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the largest B2C online retailers in China by transaction volume. Its English website, for worldwide shipping, launched on October 18, 2012. Its' B2C platform went online in 2004. It started as an online magneto-optical store, but soon diversified, selling electronics, mobile phones, computers, etc. Jingdong Mall changed the domain name to 360buy.com in June 2007, and to JD.com in 2013



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