Big+Companies



Microsoft, Apple, Sony, and Nintendo are all huge companies of technology. On this page you will learn how much these companies make each year in their annual revenue, profit, and biggest inventions. Microsoft's biggest invention was their processing units in computers. Apple's biggest invention was the Iphone and its proceeding generations. Sony's biggest invention was their televisions because they are the top sellers. The top seller of Nintendo was the Mario franchise because so many people bought it. Microsoft, Apple, Sony, and Nintendo all make billions in annual revenue. In 2009 Sony had a revenue of 78 billion dollars, but that has gone down because the Playstation Network that is owned by Sony was hacked. In 2010 Apple had an annual revenue with 63.5 billion dollars.

Now I will tell you a little background knowledge of these huge companies. First we will start with Apple. Apple was created in April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Also on April 1, 1976 they released their newest invention called the Apple 1. In 1985 Steve Jobs was removed from the company. Even though he had been removed he returned and became Apple's CEO in 1996 after his company called NeXT was bought by Apple. That is a little background knowledge about Apple and its history Now we will talk about Microsoft's history. Not a lot of people know that Bill Gates was assisted when he made Microsoft. The man that assisted Gates was a man named Paul Allen. Allen and Gates were childhood friends who both had a passion for computer programming. In 1983 as Microsoft progressed Paul Allen had developed a disease known as Hodgkins disease which is a type of cancer. On January 1, 2000 Gates handed over his CEO position to a man named Steve Ballmer who was an old college friend and an employee of Apple since 1980. Even though Gates handed over his CEO position he made a different position called Chief Software Architect. That is a little background knowledge about the company Microsoft. Now I will tell you some history about Nintendo. Nintendo was started by Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889. A interesting fact that most people did not know is that the word Nintendo means "leave luck to heaven". Back in 1929 Fusajiro retired and adopted a son-in-law Sekiryo Kaneda. When Fusajiro retired Sekiryo took over the company. Lastly I will tell you some background knowledge about the company, Sony. Sony was found on May 7, 1946. There were two founders of Sony and they are Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. The headquarters of Sony are Minato and Tokyo Japan. That is some background knowledge of Sony