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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California.


As of March 2023, Apple is the world's biggest company by market capitalization,[6] and
with US$394.3 billion the largest technology company by 2022 revenue.[7] As of June 2022, Apple is
the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales; the largest manufacturing company by
revenue; and the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. It is considered one of
the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company
of Google), Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft.
Apple was founded as Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976, by Steve Wozniak, Steve
Jobs and Ronald Wayne to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. It was
incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977. The company's second
computer, the Apple II, became a best seller and one of the first mass-produced microcomputers.
Apple went public in 1980 to instant financial success. The company developed computers featuring
innovative graphical user interfaces, including the 1984 original Macintosh, announced that year in a
critically acclaimed advertisement called "1984". By 1985, the high cost of its products, and power
struggles between executives, caused problems. Wozniak stepped back from Apple and pursued
other ventures, while Jobs resigned and founded NeXT, taking some Apple employees with him.
As the market for personal computers expanded and evolved throughout the 1990s, Apple lost
considerable market share to the lower-priced duopoly of the Microsoft Windows ope
Samsung Group,[3] or simply Samsung (Korean: 삼성; RR: samseong [samsʌŋ]) (stylized
as SΛMSUNG), is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in
Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.[1] It comprises numerous affiliated businesses,[1] most of
them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business
conglomerate). As of 2020, Samsung has the eighth highest global brand value.[4]
Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three
decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities,
and retail. 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. Following
Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into five business groups – Samsung
Group, Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group, and JoongAng Group.
Notable Samsung industrial affiliates include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information
technology company, consumer electronics maker and chipmaker measured by 2017 revenues),[5]
[6]
Samsung Heavy Industries (the world's second largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues),
[7]
and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T Corporation (respectively the world's 13th and 36th
largest construction companies).[8] Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the
world's 14th largest life insurance company),[9] Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the
oldest theme park in South Korea)[10] and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th largest advertising
agency, as measured by 2012 revenues).[11][12]

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