Eight of the world’s most highly valued companies are technology businesses. The combined market capitalisation of these companies is $4.7tn. That is 30 per cent of the combined market capitalisation of the other 92 companies in the world’s 100 most valuable firms. Of these eight companies, five (Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) are from the US, two are Chinese (Alibaba and Tencent) and one is South Korean (Samsung). The most highly valued European tech company, SAP, is the world’s 60th most valued company.
全球前十二大公司中有8家科技公司。這些公司的總市值是4.7萬億美元。這相當于全球100家最有價值公司中剩下92家公司總市值的30%。這8家公司中，5家是美國公司，包括蘋果(Apple)、Alphabet、微軟(Microsoft)、亞馬遜(Amazon)和Facebook；2家是中國公司，即阿里巴巴(Alibaba)和騰訊(Tencent)；1家是韓國公司三星(Samsung)。歐洲最有價值的科技公司SAP在全球最有價值公司排行榜上只列第60位。