Introduction

IT Companies in USA

The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with
Alaska in the extreme Northwest and Hawaii extending the nations presence into the
Pacific Ocean. Major cities include New York, a global finance and culture center, and
Washington, DC, the capital, both on the Atlantic Coast; Los Angeles, famed for
filmmaking, on the Pacific Coast; and the Midwestern metropolis Chicago.

Capital: Washington, D.C.

Dialing code: +1
Founded: July 4, 1776
Area 9,833,517 km2
Water (%)6.97
Total land area 9,147,593 km2
Population 324,099,593(3rd)
Density 35/km2 (180th)
GDP (PPP) $18.558 trillion(2nd)
Per capita $57,220(10th)
GDP (nominal) $18.558 trillion(1st)
Per capita $57,220(6th)
Gini 40.8 medium
Currency United States dollar($)
(USD)

The United States is the world's third largest country in population and
in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district.
The mineral and agricultural resources of the United States are
tremendous.
Although the country was virtually self-sufficient in the past, increasing
consumption, especially of energy,
continues to make it dependent on certain imports.third largest
producer of oil in the world, as well as its largest importer.
It is, nevertheless, the world's largest producer of both electrical and
nuclear energy.
GDP 2nd HDI 8th IMPORT 1ST(oil n mineral fuels) EXPORT
2ND(industrial macine)

The IT sector industries in the United States

The World Economic Forum released their Global Information Technology
report recently, which ranks IT productivity and infrastructure worldwide. The
United States was ranked as the world's ninth-most-wired nationwhich is due,
the WEF says, to "strong infrastructure and innovation [hampered] by its political
and regulatory environment.
The United States has the most advanced software and information technology
(IT) services industry in the world.
More than a quarter of the $3.8 trillion global IT market is in the United States.
The industry accounts for 7.1 percent of U.S. GDP and 11.6 percent of U.S.
private-sector employment. There are more than 100,000 software and IT
services companies in the United States, and more than 99 percent are small
and medium-sized firms (under 500 employees). This total includes software
publishers, suppliers of custom computer programming services, computer
systems design firms, and facilities management companies. The industry draws
on a highly educated and skilled U.S. workforce of nearly two million people, a
number which has continued to grow during the past decade.
U.S. software firms operate a mature, harmonized market and have a reputation
for producing reliable and effective solutions that accelerate quickly to the
marketplace. International companies in the industry have shown a keen interest
in the U.S. market because of its strong intellectual property rights laws and
enforcement. U.S. companies lead the world's packaged and custom-software
markets, and are competitive in nearly all other market segments with a relatively
stable overseas market share.
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that U.S. demand for
software will increase more than 7 percent to $163.9 billion in 2012, and that
demand for information technology services will rise 4.2 percent to $235.6 billion
from the previous year. IDC surveys show that infrastructure projects are high
priorities for U.S. businesses, and interest is growing rapidly in collaborative
tools, green information technology, cloud computing, and mobile applications.
Industry subsectors
Cloud Computing Services: The IDC expects that global revenue from public
cloud computing services will grow four times as fast as information technology
spending generally, increasing by 19.4 percent year-on-year from $70 billion in
2015 to more than $141.6 billion in 2019. The U.S. market currently represents

about half of this demand, and U.S. companies routinely dominate the annual
rankings of cloud services providers. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the fastestgrowing component of the cloud services market, increasing at a 30.6 percent
rate, followed by Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) at 27 percent.
Entertainment Software: Combined revenues in entertainment software from
computer and video games $15.4 billion in 2014. The subsector employs more
than 146,000 people directly and indirectly.
Electronic Commerce: Use of the Internet for selling and buying retail products
continue to expand across the globe at an exciting pace. The United States is a
leader in electronic commerce or e-commerce. According to statistics compiled
by Census, U.S. retail e-commerce spending for 2014 reached $304.9 billion,
growing 15.4 percent since 2013.
Federal Resources
The Department of Commerce makes technology and Internet policy a top
priority, investing resources to address the challenges and opportunities
business faces in the digital economy. For this reason, Secretary Pritzker
announced the Commerce Department Digital Economy Agenda on November 9,
2015, focused around four key opportunities:
Promoting a free and open Internet worldwide, because the Internet functions
best for our businesses and workers when data and services can flow
unimpeded across borders.
Promoting trust online, because security and privacy are essential if electronic
commerce is to flourish.
Ensuring access for workers, families, and companies, because fast broadband
networks are essential to economic success in the 21st century.
Promoting innovation, through smart intellectual property rules and by advancing
the next generation of exciting new technologies.

1. Microsoft

Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the year 1975 has been
headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Fortune 500 Rank: No. 35
Revenue: $73.7 billion

Top Executive: CEO Steve Ballmer

Bill Gates suggested the companys name to be Micro

Micro-Soft,
Soft, which was combination of
Microcomputer and Software.
ftware.
It looked a little bit weired with hyphen so after sometime it was removed and finally
Microsoft was officially registered as a company in 1976.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen who was the cofounder of Microsoft got their first project from
MITS in 1976.
In 1988, Microsoft became the world's largest PC software company based on sales.
Some Windows versions which reportedly couldn't get released were: Windows
Nashville; Windows Cairo and Windows Neptune.

Windows 7 is said to have helped Microsoft beat Apple in consumer satisfaction score.
How many Patents Microsoft holds ?
Its 10,000

They are filing around 3,000 patents every year making it one of the top five patent
owners of the U.S.
Since Microsoft has had six 2-for
for-1 splits and three 3-for-1 splits,

Microsoft has split its stock nines times since it went public back in March 1986. one
original Microsoft share would now be equal to 288 shares today.

If you had bought one share of Microsoft stock for $21 at its March 13, 1986 IPO, it
would be worth $14,990 today. That's a whopping 71,283% increase over thirty years.

Bill Gates wrote a class scheduling program for his school. He tweaked the programs
code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.
Gates was selected for Harvard University after scoring 1590 in his SAT score

SAT(Scholastic Aptitude Test) is a test for getting admission into top educational
institutes in world, and

Gates cleared it with flying colors scoring 1590 while the top score at that time was
1600.

Gates left as CEO of Microsoft on June 27,2008 to do full-time role in Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation as a philanthropistThe way everyone has been beating up on
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft lately, you'd think the biggest software company on
the Fortune 500 was going out of business. Instead it managed to move up two spots
from No. 37 last year. But there's no arguing Microsoft is at a critical point in its history.
In the 1990s, it was arguably the most powerful IT company, period. But, it's fallen
behind the times. The company's Windows operating system and Office applications
remain cash cows, but their relevance is diminished by the megatrends of cloud
computing and mobile computing where the company is not so dominant -- if not an
outright laggard.
It is home to nearly one hundred thirty thousand employees and is present CEO is
Satya Nadella. Major products coming from Microsoft includes Windows Operating
Systems, Office, Internet Explorer, Server, Skype (video calling), Visual Studio,
Microsoft Dynamics (Enterprise Software), Azure, Xbox (video game industry), Mobile
etc. Known services offered by Microsoft includes MSN, Bing search engine, One
Drive, MSDN, outlook.com, TechNet. The Enterprise Solution offered by Microsoft
provides many industry related solutions helping organizations to get away with costly
customizations and developments. Retail, Public Sector and Government, Financial
Services, Manufacturing and Telecommunication are the sectors in which Microsoft
dynamics has given proven results. It is worlds one of the most valuable company. As
part of its growth strategy it is continuing to make a lot of corporate acquisitions with
Skype Technologies being the largest acquisition till date.

2.Intel

Fortune 500 Rank: No. 54

Revenue: $53.3 billion

Top Executive: CEO Brian Krzanich (as of May 16)

Santa Clara, Calif.-based

based Intel actually saw its ranking decline three spots from
No. 51 last year. The job of moving the chip manufacturer back up in the
rankings now fallss to Brian Krzanich
Krzanich,, the company's chief operating officer who
was tapped earlier this month to take over as CEO from the retiring Paul Otellini.

Intel was initially named "Moore Noyce" after its founders, Robert Noyce and
Gordon E. Moore,
but since the name sounded like "more noise", an ill-suited
suited name for an
electronics company, it was renamed to Intel( Integrated Electronics ).
The number of Intel founders (Gordon Moore) who mentored Apple boss Steve
Jobs.
$6.6bn - The amount Intel spent on research and development in 2010.
$2,672 - Intel's first year revenue.
$43.62bn - Intel's revenue last year
In
n 1972, Intel entered the then
then-new
new digital watch market with the acquisition of
Microma.
Intel also announced its first 8
8-bit
bit microprocessor, the 8008 in 1972.
1991 - The year Intel became the number one global semiconductor
manufacturer, a position it has held ever since.
Semiconductor materials form the foundation of modern electronics, including
radio, computers, telephones, and many other devices.