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Chen: Oil companies make Apple, Amazon, and Google look small
“Not many companies make the tech giants like Apple and Amazon and Google look small, but the oil companies definitely do.”
Rampell: Roughly 25% of Google's most expensive keywords are insurance-related
“25%, more or less, of the most expensive keywords on Google are insurance related.”
Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”
Evans: Apple holds $237 billion in cash, Google holds $73 billion
“Apple, meanwhile, has two hundred and thirty seven billion dollars in gross cash on its balance sheet. Google has seventy three billion dollars.”
Evans: Big Tech annual capital expenditure reached $34 billion in 2015
“Annual capex across these companies has gone from one billion dollars in 2000 to thirty four billion dollars in 2015.”
Casado: Waze grew to 50M users on $70M before $1B Google acquisition
“Waze started in about, I think it was 2007, and it went through three rounds of funding, probably got seventy million dollars in total, and within five years, It had a mass, I think, fifty million users and was sold to Google for a billion dollars.”
Evans: Tech brands comprise 40% of top 100 global brand value
“So technology brands are now 40% of the value of the top 100 brands. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon are almost 20%.”